Arderá El Viento (Premio Alfaguara 2025) / The Wind Will Blaze

LA NOVELA GANADORA DEL PREMIO ALFAGUARA 2025

«La cuidadosa construcción de un deterioro que, aunque transcurra en un país específico, acaba por ser una metáfora distorsionada del espíritu de nuestro tiempo'. -Del acta del Jurado

>Arderá el viento es la historia de una degradación, de un descascaramiento agónico que poco a poco deja a la vista las miserias del cuerpo social. Expuesta al influjo de los Esterházy, la extraña villa costera deja aflorar la oscuridad que circula por sus zonas subterráneas, como si los visitantes fueran una piedra de toque maligna que lograra sacar a la luz la verdadera naturaleza de los personajes.

Escrita en un estilo parco y de una rara intensidad, la novela es la cuidadosa construcción de un deterioro que, aunque transcurra en un país específico, acaba por ser una metáfora distorsionada del espíritu de nuestro tiempo.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Winning novel of the Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2025

"The carefully constructed narrative of a deterioration that, while unfolding in a specific country, ultimately serves as a distorted metaphor for the spirit of our times." --Statement from the Jury

The Esterházys, an eccentric couple with an unclear past, arrive in a coastal town in Argentina and take over the management of an old hotel. These two individuals (along with their two children--a girl and a boy even more unsettling and enigmatic than their parents) create the effect of a toxic speck infiltrating the cracks of a small community and disrupting its seemingly calm daily dynamics. The couple acts as an amplifier for the prejudices, hidden desires, superstitions, fears, and latent violence within many of the town's inhabitants.

Arderá el viento /The Wind Will Blaze is the story of a slow unraveling and an agonizing peeling away that gradually reveals society's miseries. Under the Esterházys' influence, the strange coastal village slowly begins to expose the darkness flowing through its undercurrents, as if the new family was a malign pebble capable of bringing the true nature of its residents to light.

Written in a sober yet intensely evocative style, the novel is a meticulous depiction of a deterioration that, though rooted in a specific country, ultimately serves as a distorted metaphor for the spirit of our times.