Not Only Fire

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Benajmin Prado's prize-winning novel is both an intimate study of family life and a meditation on the upheavals of 20th-century Spain. On a stormy night, Ruth waits to tell her husband Samuel that she is leaving him, as he's no longer the idealistic hero she once loved. Meanwhile their son Maceo listens to his grandfather's stories of the Civil War, and daughter Marta is on the phone, suffering from unrequited love. But when Maceo is then struck by lightning, the peculiar relationships within this secretive and frustrated family are suddenly illuminated.

Author Bio

Benjamin Prado was born in Madrid in 1961. He has published several volumes of poetry and a series of novels: Raro (1995), Donde crees que vas y quien te crees que eres (1996), Nunca le des la mano a un pistolero zurdo / Never Shake Hands with a Left-handed Gunman (1996), and Alguien se acerca (1998). No solo el fuego / Not Only Fire was first published in Spain in 1999, and won the prestigious Premio Andalucia de Novela.