Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

A gynaecologist combines his scrupulous job with frequent visits to a whorehouse. A boy with a ‘bit too big’ head tells the gynaecologist about an old lady who wears a crown while waiting for his mother in the waiting room. There’s neither space nor time, but only past events told in a distant present which articulates the memories of relationships between people and the hollowness of those: the relationship of the... - Read more

At the death of Manuela Malasaña, during the tragic events that took place in Madrid on the 2nd of May of 1808, Captain Zamorano is put in charge of carrying a bag to his regiment from Madrid to Extremadura and handing it over to Coronel Díaz Porlier. He is accompanied by Sartenes, a prisoner from the Casa y Corte prison, who has been freed to fight the French, and Teresa, an embroideress friend of Manuela, will soon join them... - Read more

Nana emigrated from China twenty years ago. She lives in Madrid with her grandchildren and daughter FangFang in a dark basement full of cockroaches. Something tragic happened to FangFang some time ago, and that event holds the key to the situation in which the family finds itself now. In a story that moves between the past and present, the details and circumstances of that decisive event are slowly revealed, and in this process of discovery,... - Read more

  At the end of January 2020, Jaime Santirso, then a correspondent for El País newspaper in China, flew to Wuhan to report on the epidemic of the new coronavirus from the source of the outbreak. A few hours upon his arrival, the government of Xi Jinping ordered the city to be completely lockdown. Suddenly trapped by the severe restrictions and stalked by the invisible threat of the disease, the reporter set out to walk the deserted... - Read more