The writer Almudena Grandes from Madrid had never intended to compile her pieces from her opinion column, but in response to Juan Díaz Holgado, who is writing a thesis on her literary works, she decided to go ahead.

“Juan took care of all the selecting, I was only really involved towards the end, to add in an article which I thought was essential for understanding the crisis we’ve been going through over the last ten years”, said the writer at the book’s launch.

‘La herida perpetua’ is a compilation of ten years of work as a contributor to the news media. A book needed more than ever, as the writer states, “if we don’t look at the mistakes we made in the past, we’ll never manage to avoid them in the future”.

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