Los Extraños

Every family has its oddballs, the ones only heard from in news of some mysterious event or strange detail of their profession. In this extraordinary book, the narrator attempts to recover the stories of four such people from his own family, building life stories and ascertaining motivations from any scraps he can find.

Vicente Valero is a Spanish poet. He is the author of several books of poems, including Libro de los trazados, Canción del distraído, and Días del bosque, for which he received the Loewe Foundation International Poetry Prize. He has also published numerous pieces of prose, including the acclaimed biographical essay Experiencia y pobreza: Walter Benjamin en Ibiza, 1932-1933.