With echoes of Roberto Bolaño and Julio Cortázar, the very young philosopher and writer Sara Barquinero builds an amazing story of desire and intrigue that runs through Spain, and that’s the first stone of an ambitious narrative project: a return to the philosophical novel without giving up the dizzying pulse.

A youthful and award-winning literary revelation. An amazing novel of love and learning that is also a journey through Spain.

Who is Yna? Why has her intimate diary, a chronicle of her crush on Alejandro in 1990, appeared in a container in Zaragoza? The protagonist of I’ll Be Alone and Without a Party can’t help but ask these questions when she finds Yna’s old hand written notebook. There’s something in the simple prose of this stranger that makes her want to know more. Her story has a contagious force that, despite the distance, forces her to think about herself, to the point of putting her whole life on hiatus to begin an investigation that will take her to Bilbao, Barcelona, Salou, Peñíscola and, finally, back to Zaragoza. Is it true that no one went to Yna’s birthday on May 11, 1990? Does it make sense that the love of her life never called her? What did that great romantic obsession answer to? And where could the protagonists of it be now? Are they still alive?