by Alejandro Gándara · Ediciones Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423321582
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«Ciegas esperanzas» is the novel by Alejandro Gándara, published by Ediciones Destino in paperback (234 pages, in Spanish).
A man wakes up on a desert plain without remembering his identity; only the word «soldado» tells him something about himself. A stranger invites him to cross the river and, in their encounters, he rescues from oblivion his childhood in Morocco, his father, his teenage love, his military career and his family, while he is offered the chance to escape pain and memory.
The novel won the Premio Nadal in 1992 and belongs to the Áncora y Delfín collection (number 683) of Ediciones Destino.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and for those interested in novels about memory, identity and reconstruction of the past.
Alejandro Gándara is a Spanish writer. Born in Santander, Cantabria, Gandara studied political science and sociology at Complutense University in Madrid, where he also now teaches. He won the Premio Ignacio Aldecoa for short stories in 1979, and published his first novel La media distancia in 1984. He has published more than a dozen volumes of fiction and non-fiction, and his work has been translated into English, German and Italian among other languages.
