Novel for Children and Young People
Madrid, September 20, 2009. Marcos Álvarez, a 16-year-old high school student, confesses to the police that he killed his father and assaulted his three brothers.
The brutality of the crime shocks everyone: Marcos has always been a popular and well-liked boy who has never shown any violent attitude. Santiago, a writer and investigative journalist who attended the same school as Marcos as a young man, decides to investigate to discover the truth behind this shocking confession. His research leads him to talk to the boy’s teachers, classmates and friends, revealing a complex picture of family tensions, a past scarred by trauma and a great, new awareness burning brightly in Marcos’s heart.
The testimonies he collects, however, point to another truth, one that could clear him. But what really happened in those fateful days of September?
Amid homophobia, bullying, sexual harassment, xenophobic prejudice, the lucid and painful portrait of teenagers searching for their voice in the arduous journey of maturation and transition to adulthood, as they confront the old values embodied by their parents and an obsolete and inadequate educational system.
A cult book in Spain, thanks to its success it has now also become a successful original miniseries on the atresplayer platform.
Synopsis Source:Salani.co.uk
Publication date: July 2, 2024
Nando López, born in Barcelona in 1977 and of Andalusian descent, moved early to Madrid, where he earned a doctorate in Hispanic Philology. He has participated in numerous university plays as director and author, founding the company “Armando no me llama,” with which he staged his first texts. He has worked in the publishing industry and was a high school teacher for ten years. Since 2015, he has devoted himself exclusively to writing, alternating his activities as a novelist and playwright, with works for adults and young people. In 2021, with the release of the television series La edad de la ira, based on his novel of the same name, he also began collaborating as an audiovisual content creator, including the Red Flags series, for which he is a screenwriter and executive producer.
