Publisher's Synopsis
It's 2004 in Muriga, a quiet town in Spain's northern Basque country. Five years have passed since the kidnapping and murder of a young local politician and the town's rhythms have almost returned to normal. But in the aftermath of the Atocha train bombings in Madrid, the townspeople want a reckoning of Muriga's own troubled past. Everyone knows who pulled the trigger five years ago, but is the young man now behind bars the only one to blame? The accounts of three townspeople in particular - the councilman's beautiful young widow, the teenage radical now in jail for the crime and an American teacher hiding a traumatic past of his own - hold the key to what really happened. And for these three, it's finally time to confront what they can find of the truth.
