The Sun of Summer

The Sun of Summer is the Ourense writer Carlos Casares's final work and was published only a month after his death on 9 March 2002. It is a lyrical, retrospective novel narrated in the voice of a young woman named Helena. She recalls her childhood playing games with Carlos in the grounds of the family home in Beiro, a village north of Ourense where the author used to spend his summers and where his uncle was parish priest. Helena's aunt, Mercedes, thinks the boy has a hairy devil in him, bu...