The Hungry Night
La noche hambrienta.
Rafael Balanzá
Nuevos Tiempos. 203.

The Hungry Night begins with an interrogation that immerses us in a strange atmosphere, one of a world troubled by guilt. The protagonist has confessed to killing his wife to the police, but his story is so improbable and his behaviour so strange that they decide to put him in the hands of a medical team. The perplexity is triggered when the protagonist reveals who his accomplice in the alleged crime was. The enormous weight of a terrible past, a degraded present and the loneliness that surrounds it transform the story into something similar to the descent to the ocean abyss. A thriller with a maddening pace, disturbing characters and an ending that won`t leave the reader indifferent.

Rafael Balanzá (Alicante, 1969) has lived in Murcia since 1986. In January 2002 he founded El Kraken magazine which lasted until February 2009. Arrabal said it was definitely the best magazine in Europe. In 2007, and encouraged by the writer Manuel Moyano, Balanzá published Crímenes triviales, a collection of stories very well received by the critics. With Los asesinos lentos, his first novel, he won Café Gijón Prize for novel in 2009.

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