The jury has highlighted two fundamental qualities in this novel: “The first is that it is a vision as subtle as it is unusual of old age; the second, is the risk that the author has taken by creating a set of well-characterized voices, ......

 which break with the stereotypes that circulate most in our society and give a complex,dynamic and tragicomedy perspective of this vital stage ”.

The novel is about a group of senior women who live together in the Peña Hincada residence.  They are feminists without knowing it, drawing a ruthless portrait of men without any political correctness and a large dose of black humor.  It is a modern Decameron in which one of the residents disappears and another insists on finding her corpse.

Antonio Fontana (Málaga, 1964) is the author of five novels: ‘Sol poniente’ (Rising Sun) which earned him the Malaga Novel Award in 2017; ‘Hostal Parisien’ (Parisian Hostel); ‘Plano detallado del infierno’ (Detailed Map of Hell); ‘El perdón de los pecados’ (Forgiveness of Sins), which was a finalist in the 2003 Café Gijón Award, and ‘De hombre a hombre’ (Man to Man). Graduated in Journalism, his professional career has been linked to the newspaper ABC for thirty years, nineteen of them as coordinator of books in the ABC Cultural supplement.

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