Los amores oscuros

"I was Lorca's last love and, perhaps, the reason for his death." Thus begins the novel that reveals the romantic relationship that kept the poet from fleeing Spain despite the grave danger he faced. Dark Loves transports us to the happy final days of Federico García Lorca, when Spain was in turmoil under the Black Biennium and the author of Yerma was enjoying the height of his fame. Yet what makes him a complete man is his relationship with a young man who returns his love with steadfastness, maturity, and passion. Federico will take the initiative to introduce him to his inner circle of friends: Rafael de León, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rafael Alberti, Margarita Xirgu, Vicente Aleixandre, and Miguel Hernández. Also to the women of the Lyceum Club Femenino, so forgotten yet so essential in his world: Pura Ucelay, María Teresa León, and Lola Membrives, the poet's confidantes who, at that time, inspired the verses he composed for his beloved that would become *Los sonetos del amor oscuro*. However, such happiness is marked by a tragic fate. Lorca gradually becomes the champion and icon of a school of thought over which disturbing threats loom. Los amores oscuros is a cult classic of Spanish literature. A superb, well-researched, and incisive novel that portrays the turbulent Madrid of the 1930s and the political and social disputes in a Spain on the brink of explosion. But above all, it vindicates a luminous love story, condemned for years to obscurity. "The name of García Lorca's last love emerges after 70 years." Giles Tremlett, THE GUARDIAN "The novel that revealed the relationship between Lorca and Ramírez de Lucas." Amelia Castilla, THE NEW YORK TIMES "A controversial, meticulously crafted, vibrant work." Carmen Rigalt, EL MUNDO "You can hear Lorca laughing, being happy; his vitality is beautifully rendered in the fiction." Javier Goñi, BABELIA Unabridged, uncensored version. Stage adaptation at Carnegie Hall in New York, starring Miguel Poveda, in 2015.