Juan Urbano is a unique character from Benjamín Prado, an alter ego who served as a journalist in local columns of the newspaper El País and who later resumed a new, fuller life in the author's fictional narrative.
If I remember correctly, the last book of Benjamín Prado It was a biography of Sabina parallel to the last album by the genius of Úbeda. Even the truth.
And is that Benjamín Prado has that taste for the transition between fiction, documentation, journalism and the chronicle of the times we live in, becoming a whole in one of the letters that always ends up conquering with its freshness and its successful and imaginative use of language to endow of an acute lyricism everything that it touches.
The point is that Juan Urbano, a part-time professor of literature, returns in Los thirty Surnames. the literary.
The previous adventures of Juan Urbano were: Bad people who walk, Operation Gladio and Adjustment of accounts, three stories that present a Juan faced in social and political particularities of our days in Spain.
On this occasion, thanks to his already recognized prestige as a researcher, he is hired to investigate a bastard family branch of a powerful family. The initial rejection of illegitimate children can arouse the curiosity of legitimate descendants long afterward. What would become of that great-grandfather's extramarital daughter?
A part of the family, the most human and curious, tries to locate the lost branch of the genealogical tree. While the other party, more practical and little given to eccentric reunions that can only lead to patrimonial struggles, is radically opposed.
The problem is that in the end the search is not only oriented towards a possible reunion between the curious and the human. In the story that connects with that bisuabelo and his sexual slip, we delve into the roots of the families of solera, raised from shady businesses of a past in which colonialism justified everything, even the greatest injustices ...
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