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LA CARNE
Soledad, single and childless, has just reached sixty. But what might look like a normal life to many is to her a symptom of her difference, and she spends days and nights torturing herself about it. One night Soledad pays Adam, a 32 year-old gigolo, to go with her to the opera, hoping to make an ex-lover jealous. But a violent and unforeseen incident complicates everything, marking the beginning of a troubling, volcanic and even dangerous relationship. He has a dark past and she, a woman obsessed with madness and age spots, has a burning need to throw herself, body and soul, into something one last time. The story of Soledad's life intersects brilliantly with the stories of ill-fated writers which she is organising for the National Library.