La conquista del aire / The Conquest of the Air
Novel , 1998
Anagrama
Carlos Maceda asks his two best friends, Santiago Álvarez and Marta Timoner, for money to cover the crisis of his small electronics company. They agree to lend it to him, and from that moment on, the decisions of their lives are laid bare, as if the act of lending and receiving money has left them exposed to the gaze of those closest to them—husbands, girlfriends, wives, partners, employees, friends—exposed to the narrator's gaze.
The novel was adapted into a film in 2000 by Gerardo Herrero under the title Las razones de mis amigos (The Reasons of My Friends).