by Use Lahoz · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423356416
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«Jauja» is the literary novel by Use Lahoz, published by Planeta in paperback (464 pages, in Spanish).
María Broto, a theater actress approaching forty, receives the news of her father's death when a man waits for her outside a performance and offers to take her back to her childhood village for the funeral. The journey into that unsettled past links times and characters, and sustains a story about love, loss, fragile success, forgiveness and the weight of memory.
First edition published on November 12, 2019. Part of the Áncora & Delfín collection.
A read for those seeking contemporary literary fiction about family memory, the passage of time and unresolved accounts with the past.
Use Lahoz is a Spanish writer of fiction. He has lived in many countries for study or work, including Portugal, Germany, Italy, Uruguay, Cuba and France, where he works as a teacher at the Paris Institute of Political Studies. He is a regular contributor to Radio Nacional de España and El País, as well as other national and Latin American media. His journalistic work has been awarded with the Pica d’Estats Prize in 2011.
