La forma de la noche

Synopsis of La forma de la noche

In the summer of 1936, as Spain is engulfed in the Civil War, a series of tigers escape from a circus in Gijón, sowing panic among the population. In this context, a love story unfolds between a militiaman and a young bourgeois woman, a tale that explores the roots of Spanish society during the 'forty years of peace'. The novel introduces 'Lot', a fictional territory where children ignore prisons and adults avoid looking to the past. Through heroic and vile characters, Juan Pedro Aparicio offers an incisive and often humorous vision of the human condition in times of conflict.