Hace treinta a os, en un terreno bald o de un barrio tranquilo, apareci descuartizado y quemado el cad ver de una adolescente. La investigaci n se cerr sin culpables y su familia -de clase media educada, formal y cat lica- silenciosamente se fue resquebrajando Pero, pasado ese largo tiempo, la verdad oculta saldr a la luz gracias al persistente amor del padre de la v ctima.

Esa verdad mostrar con crudeza lo que se esconde detr s de las apariencias; la crueldad a la que pueden llevar la obediencia y el fanatismo religioso; la complicidad de los temerosos e indiferentes, y tambi n, la soledad y el desvalimiento de quienes se animan a seguir su propio camino, ignorando mandatos heredados.

Como en Las viudas de los jueves, en Elena sabe y en Una suerte peque a, Claudia Pi eiro ahonda con maestr a en los lazos familiares, en los prejuicios sociales y en las ideolog as e instituciones que marcan los mundos privados, y nos entrega una novela conmovedora y valiente, certera como una flecha clavada en el coraz n de este drama secreto.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A teenager is found burned and dismembered in a field. Thirty years later, the crime remains unclear and her family and surroundings have fallen apart.

Thirty years ago, in a vacant lot in a quiet neighborhood, the corpse of a teenage girl was found dismembered and burned. The investigation was closed without suspects and her family - educated, formal, Catholic, and middle class - quietly fell apart. But, after such a long time, the hidden truth will come to light thanks to the persistent love of the victim's father.

That truth will show crudely what is hidden behind appearances; the cruelty to which obedience and religious fanaticism can lead; the complicity of the fearful and indifferent, and also the loneliness and helplessness of those who dare to follow their own path, ignoring inherited mandates.

As in The Thursday Widows, Elena Knows, and A Little Luck, Claudia Pi eiro delves masterfully into family ties, social prejudices, and the ideologies and institutions that mark private worlds, and delivers us a moving and brave novel, as accurate as an arrow stuck in the heart of this secret drama.