Siruela 2011

The Hungry Night opens with an interrogation that plunges us into a strange atmosphere—a universe disturbed by guilt. The protagonist has confessed to the murder of his wife to the police, but his account is so implausible and his behavior so peculiar that they decide to place him under the care of a medical team. Perplexity intensifies when the protagonist reveals who his accomplice in this supposed crime has been. The immense weight of an abominable past and a degraded present, along with the thickening solitude around him, transforms the narrative into something akin to a descent into an oceanic chasm.

A fast-paced thriller with unsettling characters and an ending that will leave readers stunned.

“Balanzá joins the elite of Spanish prose writers of his generation, as the originality and sharpness he displays both in the invention of plots and in their literary development are overwhelming.”
Luis Alberto de Cuenca, ABC