Ézaro Ediciones, 2009, Novel. 267 pages

Coral novel about emigrants from Galicia that takes place between 1946 and 1953.

“In this land, in this moment, there is no future for me”, says Eusebio to his father. We are in 1946 and Eusebio decides to move to Brazil. His life there, first in Santos –where he is mercilessly exploited by an unscrupulous employer- and later in Sao Paulo is not what he was expecting.

But in Brazil he meets other emigrants: Raimundo, a skilful card player; Regina, a prostitute of whom he falls in love; Amancio, the owner of a night club…

The novel takes also place in a parallel way in a fishing village in Galicia, where Eusebio’s family remained. There we meet Pepe, who helps the maquisards fighting Franco’s regime until one of his relatives reports him to the police.

And between Galicia and Brazil we find Jaime, who had migrated before the Civil War and now might face a military trial if he returns as he would like to do.

Emigration seen from both the points of view of the ones who leave and the ones who stay; of the ones who ‘make it’ and the ones who fail, as the plans of all of them keep changing or vanishing.

Published by: Spanish worldwide Ézaro Editions

Novel. Editorial Random House Mondadori, Debate, Spain .207 pages

Montevideo, 1969. The country that for decades has been a role model of democracy in Latin America falls apart. In the middle of the daily growing social tension, some people try to understand what is happening and look for their destiny.

Diego, who is starting to live, feels betrayed because reality has nothing to do with what he has been taught in school.

Leonardo becomes an alcoholic because he cannot keep Raquel by his side, since the values he can offer are no longer of any use to her.

Susana, a prostitute, is obsessed by the many faces of her that mirrors reflect.

The city is under the spell of violence, since the strikes of the subversive Tupamaro movement are growingly frequent.

A lively mosaic about the crisis and the political transition in Uruguay in the sixties.

A novel with clear echoes of the best Onetti.

Published by: Spanish worldwide Debate, Random House Mondadori (contract expired)

I have always liked to write. Since I was a child I made up stories, created heroes who were beyond reality. They were born under the influence of the main characters in the works of Dumas, D’Amicis, Jules Verne or Zane Grey. Later, new books came and the heroes became real people in blood and flesh. Where I was born, you could not avoid reading Onetti and the great Latin American writers, such as García Márquez, Borges, Vargas Llosa, Benedetti, Bioy Casares, Lezama Lima, Rulfo, Cortázar and many others, as well as the great North American writers: Faulkner, Hemingway, Henry James…

I published my first novel not so long ago because before I had been too busy before, with a job that I really loved, since I was distributing in movie theatres all over the world the lives of other heroes, such as Indiana Jones or James Bond, but also the anonymous ones, people with dark and hard existences that one day discover that the soul weighs 21 grams or that the world will always be Babel.

A few months ago I left the direction of Universal Pictures in Spain and, although I am still very attached to the world of the cinema, I finished my second novel: Todas las huellas

Works

El ordenamiento del orden, Novel, 2001

Todas las huellas, Novel, 2009