Finalist novel - 18th Casino de Santiago European Novel Award

On Monday, November 25, the Sala de Ámbito Cultural of ​​the El Corte Inglés in Santiago de Compostela will host the first debate around the finalist novels for the 18th Casino de Santiago European Novel Prize.

‘Coa man Esquerda’ by Xavier Quiroga will be the novel that is the subject of the literary colloquium that he will moderate, Loli Sans.

Coa man esquerda. Xavier Quiroga (Edit. Xerais).

It is a hard and tender story at the same time, which brings us closer to the eternal vileness of the human being. In this novel, a retired writer receives an envelope containing a note and a folder full of haphazardly handwritten pages. In them, a dying old man who lived in a nursing home ravaged by the pandemic tells of the disturbing events he experienced as a child in his house far from the village and that marked him forever. This kind of confession or legacy from the old man will serve to, in addition to freeing himself from a heavy burden, discover a secret that the writer did not know about himself

Participation in the debate is open to the entire public