Sunday on Zenda. Sunday of great hits. Sunday, in this case, of All the Nights, All the Cities, Dolores Redondo’s latest novel (San Sebastián, 1969), published by the publishing house Destino. One of the pivotal figures in contemporary Spanish noir, Redondo takes a fascinating leap in her career with this story where the boundaries between reality and fiction blur completely: a meta-mystery and a novel about the forces of creation, All the Nights, All the Cities will delight those who love to lose themselves (and re-find themselves) in the pages of a gripping thriller.
The publisher notes, about the book: “Benedict Newman is the most celebrated writer of his generation. When police unexpectedly arrive at his home and interrogate him about a series of crimes identical to those described in his latest book, he collapses.
Upon awakening, Newman is another: he speaks and behaves as Colt Star, the detective from his novels, ready to investigate the case in which his creator is the prime suspect
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Nash Elizondo never chose to have a father. Much less this one. But Benedict is her only living relative and the law leaves her with no option but to accept her responsibility as daughter. What Nash cannot imagine is that the fictional detective she believes Newman to be will prove to be the sharpest of those around him and the one closest to knowing who committed the murders and why, and that the truth will change everything for him.
Dolores Redondo returns to her readers with the story she has been waiting years to tell and dives into the most vertiginous territory any writer can explore: the place where the voice one invents and one’s own voice no longer distinguish themselves. If a writer spends entire decades dwelling in the minds of their characters, thinking their thoughts, feeling with their skin, dreaming their dreams, where is the boundary? And what happens when that boundary disappears?”
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Author: Dolores Redondo. Title: All the Nights, All the Cities. Publisher: Destino. Store: Todos Tus Libros.