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LOS GATOS PARDOS
Three people pass a night in San Juan, Murcia, which they are unlikely to ever forget. Jacinto, a Mexican bodyguard working for Don Jorge, has to settle scores with the murderer of one of the men he was minding, while his boss is giving a large party. He comes across María, a fifteen-year-old who has gone out that night with the intention of trying out new experiences that will help her to forget her family history. She has no idea that Ginés, her mysterious, solitary neighbour, has been following in her footsteps that night, has attended Don Jorge's party and knows Jacinto. A direct, effective, compelling story about the secret lives of three characters who move in and out of settings and groups of people which have rarely been so vividly portrayed in recent Spanish literature. A confluence of lives on the point of eruption, on a night of risk and excess during which an unexpected love story blossoms.