Above Rain

Book Title: Above Rain
ISBN: 9781635429954
By Author(s):DEL ARBOL VICTOR
By Publisher:RANDOM HOUSE US
Format:PB

The past, present, and future collide on a breathtaking journey from 1950s Morocco to modern-day Spain and Swedenequal parts literary novel, historical fiction, andcrime story

In Del rbols noir-inflected masterpiece, the past is always present, the political is always personal, and love, however fleeting, is the only redeeming grace. I loved every moment of it. Halley Sutton, author ofThe Lady Upstairs

Miguel and Helena meet at a nursing home in Tarifa, a coastal town at the southernmost tip of Spain. At an age when they believe their life is behind them and distanced from their children, they feel they are no longer needed. The sudden suicide of one of the other residents opens their eyes. They dont want to spend their last days longing for supposedly better times, so together they decide to undertake the journey of their lives and confront the darkness in their pasts.

Meanwhile, in the distant Swedish city of Malm, the young Yasmina, a child of Moroccan immigrants who dreams of being a singer, lives trapped between her authoritarian grandfather and her contemptuous mother, who is ashamed of Yasmina because she works for a Swede with a murky reputation. And shes having a secret affair with the Deputy Commissioner of the Swedish police, an older, influential man.

As Yasmina is drawn deeper into Malms criminal underworld and Miguel and Helena approach the end of their feverish road trip, Vctor del rbol masterfully reconstructs the history of violence that links their seemingly disparate lives.