Maria Escalas

Before your memory turns to ashes

Abans que el teu record torni cendra

INFORMATION

An enthralling love story that takes us back to the years that go from the war in the Philippines to the Spanish Second Republic and Civil War in a small village in Majorca. Maria Escales draws a mosaic of characters who hide burning secrets: men who kill their cousins and distrust their brothers, priests who hide unspeakable secrets, nuns with rotten hearts, lives shattered by addictions and, above all, an anonymous town that throbs with the day to day of a time when life was a living hell. Maria Escales debut novel is making waves on the current literary scene with its mature voice and steady rhythm.