El fin de la Guerra Fría

The Cold War began the exact moment the bomb exploded over Hiroshima in August 1945. Some argue that it ended on April 26, 1986, with the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. However, on September 11, 2001, the Twin Towers fell, and, according to some, the clock of history started ticking again. Against this historical backdrop, The End of the Cold War intertwines the lives of Dona, Tomás, and Zheng, three characters united by uprootedness, alienation, and the feeling of inhabiting a world whose rules they no longer understand. Their paths converge in a Barcelona that has become much more than a setting: a city that absorbs their conflicts, reflects their uncertainties, and becomes the true heart of the novel. With an ambitious ensemble structure and an extraordinary ability to fuse the intimacy of his characters with contemporary history, Juan Trejo constructs a novel about memory, identity, the fictions of power, and the cracks in modernity.