Mario, the geometric painter, returns one day to his apartment in the city of Jaén, which he has shared for six years with his wife, Blanca. He finds that another woman, almost identical in features and gestures, has taken her place. He begins to turn over the memories and scrutinize the evidence, trying to discover the reasons for her absence, or to bring her back again. Somehow. Is Blanca really gone? What do you look for in the worlds you are immersed in and Mario is forbidden from entering?
In this intense and interesting novel, the Spanish writer Antonio Muñoz Molina delves deeply into the relationship of a man and a woman whose destinies intersected before their world began to shake under the influence of differences and the monotony of life. Molina sheds light on the complexity of emotional relationships and the conflicts experienced by couples who love in their partners today what they may hate in them tomorrow...
The story does not contain any truth at all
It was inspired by my vast imagination, and the reasons for writing it were a challenge I faced one day. I needed to write a new story on my own website in 2008, and today I am resubmitting it after printing it on paper.
My doors are open to love:
It talks about a girl who was born to a Muslim father and a Christian mother. She lives in a religious conflict between the two religions since she was young. Then she gets married to a Muslim person just because she feels that her chances of getting married begin to diminish after a period of marriage. The husband’s actions begin to arouse her suspicions, and she then discovers that he is an addict, and she tries to rid him of his addiction with the help of her neighbor, who... He works as a doctor.