Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Q&A with Soledad Maura

From my Q&A with Soledad Maura, author of Madrid Again: A Novel:
How much work does your title do to take readers into the story?

Madrid Again
gives some (but not all) of the geographical context, and implies repetition. The main characters spend time in Madrid, but they are always on the move, back and forth between Spain and the United States. Some of the secondary and background characters also live through displacements.

What's in a name?

The names in the novel are homages to people both real and fictional. The main character Lola has one of my favorite names of all time. Cinematic, literary, and...[read on]
Visit Soledad Maura's website.

My Book, The Movie: Madrid Again.

Q&A with Soledad Maura.

--Marshal Zeringue