El desvío (The Detour)

Marcelo Luján

Short story. Kutxa Ediciones, 2007. 62 pages

Luque has been going from village to village for eight years, crossing valleys and mountains. One night, sitting in front of the steering wheel of his van, he checks the road map again and again trying to remember his way. He had to make it early next morning, he had to cross the whole valley and for the last time he memorized the route and started. But an unexpected event happened changing his destiny.

The Detour won the XLIX Kutxa Ciudad de San Sebastián Prize and was also selected for the “Fostering Reading” Campaign held by the public Transport System Board of the city of San Sebastian, with an initial twenty thousand copy edition.

“A short novel rather than a long tale, it starts like a road movie and ends up like X Files, with the tension of the great stories and a surprising ending”. Álvaro Bermejo.

Published by:  Spanish Kutxa ediciones (contract expired)