I Won't See You Die: A Novel

Summary

Reunited in old age, two former lovers confront the past and what could have been in this subtle psychological novel that upends expectations—from the acclaimed author of Your Steps on the Stairs.

During their youth, Gabriel Aristu and Adriana Zuber lived a passionate love story that seemed destined to last forever. The future, however, had other plans for them. Separated for fifty years by an ocean of isolation, she trapped in the Spain of the dictatorship, he finding professional success in the United States, they meet again in the twilight of their days.

Looks, caresses, silenced desires, and old reproaches will then give way to the realization that nostalgia for that first love is also nostalgia for the person we once were. I Will Not See You Die is a novel about the power of memory and oblivion, loyalty and betrayal, the ravages of time and the obstinacy of love and its mirages.