by Mercedes Salisachs · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432060441
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«El volumen de la ausencia» is the novel by Mercedes Salisachs, winner of the Ateneo de Sevilla Prize in 1983, published by Planeta in hardcover (304 pages, in Spanish).
Ida, a woman who has built a stable life, receives news in a medical consultation that confronts her with a long-postponed decision. Twelve years after her last encounter with a famous painter, the protagonist walks through the city evoking the episodes that marked her existence and wonders whether to continue with her routine or let herself be carried away by feelings she had repressed.
The work won the Ateneo de Sevilla Prize in 1983. The copy is published in hardcover, with 304 pages, by Planeta.
Recommended for readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and for those seeking an intimate story about memory, marriage and second chances.
Mercedes Salisachs Roviralta was a Spanish writer and novelist. She began her career when she was a teenager and published more than thirty five novels. She wrote and published her last novel in 2013 at the age of 97. She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela.
