Nosotros / Us
Novel , 2023
Destino
Pages: 368
Winner of the 2023 Nadal Prize for Fiction
Irene believes she has lived the most perfect marriage in the world. Years of absolute devotion and passion between two human beings—that is how she remembers her love with Marcelo, her late husband.
They shared a connection that both amazed and unsettled those around them: a couple who lived entirely for one another, as if every day were the first. This relationship—the greatest of love stories—kept them isolated from their surroundings, on the margins of ordinary reality.
With Marcelo’s death, Irene’s world shatters. Yet she discovers an unexpected way to go on living beside him, to survive. This act of remembering and invoking the love of her life gives shape to this literary fantasy.
Us is a novel that explores the limits of love itself and, at the same time, a journey into the depths of a woman’s soul—one trapped in an intimate, imaginative, and fatal utopia. But little by little, we come to see that loneliness always imposes its law—and its wound.