A Man Underwater

There are crimes that haunt us for life.

In the quiet, sun-drenched days of his youth, the protagonist’s life takes a dark turn when he discovers a neighbor’s corpse beneath the murky waters of an irrigation pond. At just fourteen, this chilling event shatters his adolescence, igniting a storm of suspicion and rumors in his small neighborhood. Accusations fly, and theories abound about the drowning and his potential involvement. More than twenty years later, he embarks on a quest to uncover the truth of that fateful summer morning.

With an irresistible narrative drive and a captivating investigative structure, A Man Underwater plunges readers into a thrilling journey through the labyrinth of memory. A round trip in which writing opens a crack in death through which life ends up breaking through.

Winner of the Premio Biblioteca Breve in 2021 with Trigo limpio, Juan Manuel Gil has become one of the most original authors on the Spanish narrative scene.