Una novela de bandoleros

Manuel, a Gypsy and horse trainer in an Andalusian village, fears losing the only thing that gives his life meaning: custody of his son Tristán, an autistic boy. In a fit of desperation, he kidnaps him and embarks on a journey on horseback that soon becomes a odyssey marked by the elements, violence, and tragedy. The road, which begins as an excursion, transforms into a flight to nowhere, fraught with storms, pursuits, and the brutality of a world without refuge. Narrated in a stark and restrained prose that eschews introspection, allowing actions and silences to speak volumes, A Novel of Bandits intensely addresses issues that resonate in our present: contested fatherhood, identity, masculinity in crisis, and social exclusion. Visceral and cinematic, it transposes the codes of the Western to the contemporary South, stripping them of epic grandeur and returning them to their raw, unadulterated essence. Alejandro Marín turns the feeling of discomfort into a virtue throughout these pages and, in the end, if his fiction is terrifying it is because of everything it reveals about the darkness of our own soul.