by José Carlos Somoza · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423331970
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«Dafne desvanecida» is the suspense novel by José Carlos Somoza, published by Destino in paperback (237 pages, in Spanish).
Juan Cabo suffers amnesia after a traffic accident and only remembers a phrase he wrote hours before: «Me he enamorado de una mujer desconocida». To reconstruct his identity, he reviews his notebooks, where reality and fiction blur, while searching for an amateur poet who holds the key to the mystery and dies under strange circumstances.
Novel shortlisted for the Premio Nadal 2000, number 891 in Destino's Áncora y Delfín collection.
For readers of thrillers and literary suspense, as well as those who follow contemporary narrative in Spanish.
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.
