A Distant Beach (Trilogy of Dark Love Book 1)

"Who was that boy really and why was he willing to go off with a guy he had met barely two hours before? Maybe he’s running away from something or someone? OK, sometimes you can improvise a friendship with strangers (who has not struck up a conversation with a stranger in a bar or at a bus stop?), sometimes you can be having a bad day, one of those days when you’re feeling lonely, sad, and bored and if, besides, you’re broke and somebody offers to buy you a drink, you’re not going to say no. But was that the case? Was our meeting the result of a coincidence?" Such are the questions that the hero of this story asks when he meets Tino, the boy who will turn his everyday life upside down and lead him headlong into unforeseen consequences. Love story, psychodrama, romantic story with shades of dirty realism, A Distant Beach surprises us by its honesty, its emotive force, and its vision, never indulgent, of certain aspects of homosexual relationships.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Pedro Menchén is a Spanish writer, born in 1952. Known especially for his Trilogy of Dark Love, comprising the novels A Distant Beach (1999), See you in Casablanca (2001) and Don't Come Back Here Any More (2005), he has also published two books of short stories: Who Can Listen to a Guy who Comes through Your Window Stark Naked at Midnight? (1988), which gained him the first prize of the city of Acalá, and Bloody Lips (2002), plus one short novel: So long, Kid (1989), winning the City of Barbastro Prize, and an autobiography Written in Water (2011), all of which have confirmed him as one of the most interesting authors of present-day Spanish literature.