La herida de la esfinge / Sphynx’s Wound
Novel , 1991
Espasa Calpe
In June 1881, a young English aristocrat, a passionate, fatalistic fellow arrives in Cairo accompanied by an eccentric opera singer. Both in love with the same woman, they confront the dramas of the country of the Nile from different perspectives: one dramatic and the other whimsical. When the Great Sphynx of Giza performs one of the most extraordinary miracles ever witnessed by any traveller, suspense takes off and the action is accelerated by the arrival of new characters, all possessed by unsettling dualities. In the course of a fascinating journey up the Nile, the protagonist end ups having an identity crisis that leads him to resurrect the whole world of the past in order to satisfy his fantasies.