Author Description

Journey of the Wolf depicts the last days in the life of Sebastian Rosales (known in other times as El Lobo), a veteran of the Civil War who has lived in France for thirty-four years: from 1939, when he and the last remnants of the Republican army fled across the Pyrenees, until the novel's present, the fall of 1973, when he decides to return to his native pueblo in the Alpujarras, a remote and mysterious region on the south slopes of the Sierra Nevada in Andalucia. It is a journey across a harsh, cruel, extreme land (itself very nearly the chief character of the novel): a land so spectacular that Rosales, silent and lupine, is almost invisible as he moves along on his journey that culminates in violence and death, and ending hauntingly reminiscent of Goya's painting The Third of May.