Los besos / The Kisses
Novel , 2021
Destino
Pages: 448
When love uncovers the deepest meaning of life.
March 2020. A professor leaves Madrid on medical advice and retreats to a cabin in the mountains, where he meets a passionate woman fifteen years his junior. His name is Salvador; hers, Montserrat. Between them, an unexpected and complete trust begins to grow—one full of revelations.
Their encounters are a great bath of light. Salvador becomes infatuated and renames her Altisidora, after a character from Don Quixote. They fall in love and build a mature relationship, mindful of the frailties of their bodies and their memories: the past reappears constantly.
The Kisses is a novel of romantic and idealized love, but also of the flesh—a story of how, in the midst of a universal crisis, two human beings try to return to the biological and ancestral homeland of eroticism, that mysterious place where men and women discover life’s deepest meaning.