Lo que te persigue

Israel is an insurance salesman and writer in the midst of a midlife crisis whose world is suddenly upon him when, after medical tests, his mother must enter a hospital in Vigo, his city. They are long nights, in which, pending analysis and results, it does not seem easy to sleep, but Israel has a lot to think about as he wanders through the corridors. As in Mario, his nine-year-old son, whom he has raised as his own but who has begun to ask questions about his biological father; or the still nameless illness of her mother, and in her and her strength, also in her past as a single mother and in everything she had to live through during Israel's early childhood, such as the strange death of her uncle James; or his brother, Alberto, on a trip to Cuba and who affirms that he will return soon with Yanelis, a stranger with a voice that is too hoarse who claims to be the love of his life; or in Agustina, the daughter of the woman with whom her mother shares a hospital room, an excessively kind woman who seems to hide something... Or the curious relationship between Israel's long-dreamed literary career and her sexual life, because after having finally managed to publish a crime novel with a prestigious publisher, intimacy with his wife has no longer been the same. But above all, Israel, he thinks, even if he doesn't want to, of Teresa Salgueiro, a fierce Portuguese woman with deep green eyes who has just carried out a failed assault on an armored car and is now a fugitive from the police. Teresa is the protagonist of his new novel. She is that she should not write because she has more important things to think about...