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‘The hidden language of books’ by Alfonso del Río

Alfonso del Río once again turns Bilbao into a relevant character in a novel. After ‘The city of the rain’, in ‘The hidden language of books’ the Villa is, together with Oxford, the fundamental scene of the action. An action basically structured in two time planes: the 1930s and 1960s of the last century. In this background is where the novel starts, when the daughter of a well-known businessman and novelist from Bilbao, named De la Sota – it is not by chance, obviously – entrusts a British lawyer to investigate a possible mystery hidden in the last book his father’s. There, she thinks, may be the key to finding a fortune that his father mysteriously lost in his last months of life.

In the thirties we witnessed that later stage of the woman’s father, which spends almost all of it in Oxford, where he had long conversations about literature and life with two real characters who were there at the time: JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis. There will also be a cameo by Unamuno, which will coincide with De la Sota in Bilbao.

Alfonso del Río has produced a novel that combines action and thought. Because there are murders, persecutions and deceptions. But there are also slow conversations, painful reflections at times and biting at others about the very essence of life and happiness. The recreation of the two British writers is very successful, as is the setting in general. And the plot hooks with what is a game of tricks and secrets.

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