This Premio Fernando Lara 2024 Award, combines a fast pace with constant twists and turns, a breathtaking setting and a cinematic story.
Cuando la tormenta pase’ is the latest novel by Galician writer Manel Loureiro, who has written one of those thrillers that take your breath away almost from the first page and in which there is no lack of mystery, intrigue, action and the winter setting of the island of Ons, in the Pontevedra estuary, which becomes even more inhospitable, oppressive and isolated when a huge storm hits it for a few days. And for the protagonist of the story, they will seem eternal.
Roberto Lobeira is a successful writer who intends to advance his next novel by going in search of inspiration to the island of Ons, a natural paradise full of tourists in summer, but almost empty in winter, where there is only electricity for a few hours and only a few inhabitants live.
The problem is that he arrives when Armand is also approaching, a great storm and a sort of prelude to the terrible events that are going to take place or, rather, are going to chain him to those very particular inhabitants - the Docampo and the Freire, two families at war since forever, a poacher, an old witchy woman and three lighthouse keepers - and other unexpected (or not so unexpected) visitors.
