Un ataúd con ventana

What would you do if you had to take care of the person who shattered your life? Claudia and Ana carry a secret that drove them apart at the age of twenty-three. Now, as they approach forty, a letter forces them to reconstruct what happened during the final night of heavy drinking they spent together. As the memory of that death resurfaces from the gaps in their recollection, two men—whom both women have shared, unbeknownst to each other—also emerge: Leo, a wandering actor who served as an intermittent refuge for both, and Jan, an extraordinary pianist whose music became forever entwined with the darkness of their nightmares. In a Madrid of cramped apartments, a film critic, a painter, an actor, and a pianist desire and lose one another as they piece together the film of their own memories. The novel interweaves the lives of four artists struggling to survive heartbreak, precariousness, and the monsters of their past. It is also a portrait of a generation born in the eighties—poised between clarity and uncertainty—that seeks refuge in sex, in words, and in the touch of skin. They are middle-aged children, prone to fierce attachments, living inside a coffin with a window, dreaming of looking up at the sky.