“Castillos de fuego” is a historical realist novel written by award-winning Spanish screenwriter and author Ignacio Martínez de Pisón. The novel was published in 2023 by Seix Barral.
After its release, it was praised as Book of the Year by the weekly supplement El Mundo, as well as Best Spanish Novel of the Year by La Vanguardia and El País, both of which have called it “extraordinary”.
This is how the specialized reviews of “Castillos de fuego” opened: with the highest praise. This, of course, is no surprise, since Ignacio Martínez de Pisón had just published “El día de mañana” and “La buena reputación,” two novels that won the Premio de la Crítica and Premio Nacional de Narrativa, respectively, so there was no shortage of expectations.
