'Elogio de las manos' is the most personal novel by the author of 'Intemperie'. A story of second chances that defends the simple life and writing as an artisanal process.

In this novel Jesús Carrasco (Badajoz, 1972) narrates the process of restorating a country house in ruins that will end up redeeming the family that occupies it.

For the award, organized by the Seix Barral publishing house and endowed with 30,000 euros, 772 manuscripts were submitted (71 more than in the last call, with 40% originals from the American continent), in which autofiction and detective/police genres have been dominant. This is not the case of the winning work, which is part of the neo-ruralist current that characterizes Carrasco's original style.

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