by José Carlos Somoza · Stella Maris · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416541782
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«Dafne desvanecida» is the novel by José Carlos Somoza, published by Stella Maris in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
Juan Cabo suffers amnesia after an accident and only remembers that he fell in love with a stranger. In his search he meets a plagiarism detective, a model who inspires novelists, a blind editor and a black poet. With Ovid's Metamorphoses as a guide, the plot mixes fiction and reality and satirizes the publishing world.
The novel was a finalist for the Nadal Prize and the Stella Maris edition was published in October 2016.
For readers of contemporary fiction and mystery, with a taste for satire of the publishing world and plots that play with fiction and reality.
José Carlos Somoza Ortega is a Spanish author. He was born in Havana, Cuba. In 1960 his family moved to Spain after being exiled for being from a bourgeoisie class. His family proved to be in difficult financial situation after having moved to Spain because they had been forbidden to take anything along except their child. And there were a lot of friends who helped them a lot during their first years in Spain. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in psychiatry, but he gave up medicine in order to become a full-time writer in 1994. Since 1994 he made his first steps in writing and sent his works to the different literature competitions, to magazines and publishers all over Spain. And his first book was published the same year. When his fifth novel The Cave of Ideas obtained an international acknowledge, he realized that he had chosen the right route in his life.
