{"product_id":"the-pain-of-others-9781635424607","title":"The Pain of Others","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this blend of police thriller and poignant autofiction, a writer revisits a tragic crime from his adolescence and reckons with a dark, underexplored side of Spain.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn Christmas Eve 1995, Miguel Ángel Hernández's best friend murdered his sister and took his own life by jumping off a cliff. It happened in a small hamlet in the Murcia countryside. No one ever knew why. The investigation was closed, and the crime forgotten. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e20 years later, when the wounds seem to have stopped bleeding and the mourning died down, Miguel decides to return to the countryside and, putting himself in the shoes of a detective, tries to reconstruct that tragic night that marked the end of his adolescence. But travelling in time always means altering the past, and the investigation will awaken ghosts that he thought he had left behind: a childhood marked by the Church, by sin and guilt; the constant presence of illness and death; the oppressive, closed world from which he managed to escape. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis raw, moving novel about the collision of two worlds and two ways of life is a reckoning with the past and, above all, a subtle and incisive meditation on the ethics of literature, which makes us aware that \"writing isn't always a triumph, that sometimes, we too may founder upon the pain of others.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Miguel Ángel Hernández\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Other Press (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781635424607\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiguel Ángel Hernández\u003c\/b\u003e is a Spanish writer best known for his works of fiction, among them the novels \u003ci\u003eIntento de escapada \u003c\/i\u003e(2013), which won the Premio Ciudad Alcalá de Narrativa and was translated into five languages, \u003ci\u003eEl instante de peligro \u003c\/i\u003e(2015), which was a finalist for the Premio Herralde de Novela, and \u003ci\u003eEl dolor de los demás \u003c\/i\u003e(2018), which was selected as a book of the year by \u003ci\u003eEl País \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times en Español\u003c\/i\u003e. Hernández teaches art history at the University of Murcia and has authored several books on art and visual culture. His novel \u003ci\u003eAnoxia\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Other Press in 2025. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdrian Nathan West \u003c\/b\u003eis a writer and literary critic based in Spain. He has translated more than twenty books, among them Rainald Goetz's \u003ci\u003eInsane\u003c\/i\u003e and Sibylle Lacan's \u003ci\u003eA Father: Puzzle\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Miguel \u0026#195;\u0026#129;ngel Hern\u0026#195;\u0026#161;ndez \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47858844762269,"sku":"9781635424607","price":37.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_05f6df3f-04bf-48e2-8c5d-71db08fc2b8e.jpg?v=1776861791","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-pain-of-others-9781635424607","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}