In 2004, Iván, a Havana journalist and veterinarian's assistant, recalls a man with two beautiful Russian dogs he befriended in 1977 who told him unknown details about the death of Trotsky and about Ramón Mercader, the assassin.

A small Basque village is irreparably changed and broken by political fanaticism. Childhood friends, Bittori and Mirren, wounded by their craters of grief find it impossible to forget and forgive. El día en que ETA anuncia el abandono de las armas, Bittori se dirige al cementerio para contarle a la tumba de su marido el Txato, asesinado por los terroristas, que ha decidido volver a la casa donde vivieron. ¿Podrá convivir con quienes la acosaron...

In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, a writer and founding member of Franco's Fascist Party is about to be shot, and yet miraculously escapes into the forest. When his hiding place is discovered, he faces death for the second time that day-but is spared, this time by a lone soldier. The POW becomes a national hero and a member of Franco's first government, while the soldier is forgotten. Sixty years later, Cercas's novel peels back the layers...

Tells the story of Antonio José Bolívar, a longtime resident of the Ecuadorian Amazon who is called upon to assist in hunting down a wild cat that has turned man-killer after her cubs were killed by foreign poachers.