DIPUTACIÓN DE A CORUÑA 2019
WINNER OF THE 2017 TORRENTE BALLESTER AWARD, TIED

Claude Dufour, a French explorer, is astonished to receive a letter from his friend Julien de Marivaux, who died thirteen years earlier, in 1724, following the expedition to the Canary Islands that established the Prime Meridian and measured Mount Teide for the first time—an expedition that awakened all the secrets linking them to Emilia, the young Canarian woman who captured the affections of both young men.

“From the first to the last page, The Angle of the Mist is a meticulously plotted novel that takes us to the remote Canary Islands of the 18th century to recount an adventure based on real events: Louis Feuillée’s expedition to measure Mount Teide for the first time. But beyond this journey, which involves both real and fictional characters, Fátima Martín, with elegant and precise prose, presents another adventure—perhaps even more complex than the first: what to do when human passions run wild and, like the characters in this story, we must face their most unexpected consequences.”
—Jorge Eduardo Benavides