Epiphany

A brilliant work that turns rural Spanish life into the most precise and unsettling mirror of the present day.    

In a small town where identity is crushed beneath the weight of change, a teenage couple is killed in a hit-and-run on a road at the edge of town. From that moment on, the entire life of the community begins to unravel, and the neighbors settle into a state of constant paranoia toward outsiders. 

Epiphany is a fierce and dazzling novel about the guilt and hierarchies that hold a community together. With a style that combines the driving momentum of a thriller with the moral depth of the finest literary tradition, Israel Merino explores violence, faith, and everyday misery through a gaze that recalls Galdós for its lucidity and Rafael Chirbes for its rawness. 

 

“The loudest kick i can remember against the door of our literature.” 
Manuel Jabois 

 

“A collage of voices that sound brutal and terrifying. A book that does not leave you indifferent.” 
Elvira Navarro 

 

For readers of Denis Johnson and Donald Ray Pollock