God's Crooked Lines

Alice Gould has just been admitted to a psychiatric hospital. She insists she’s not a patient but a private investigator working undercover to solve a mysterious case. According to a letter from her personal doctor, however, the truth is far more disturbing: Alice suffers from paranoid delusions and poses a threat to her husband’s life.

Brilliant, persuasive, and emotionally impenetra ble, Alice begins to challenge the s taff’s assumptions. Her clarity of thoug ht and seemingly rational behavior throw the institution into disarray. Is she the victim of a cruel manipulation—or a dangerously unstable mind playing an elaborate game?


The Crooked Lines of God is a psychological masterpiece that confronts the fne line between reason and madness, illusion and reality. A classic of 20th-century Spanish literature, it remains strikingly relevant. Torcuato Luca de Tena immersed h imself in a psych iatric ins tit ution be fore writing it, lending th is novel an unsettling authenticity.