Irene believes she had the most perfect marriage. Years of absolute devotion and passion. That is how she describes her relationship with Marcelo. Their bond surprised and puzzled their circle of friends: they were a couple who lived for one another as if every day were their first. With his death, her world shatters. To be able to move on, she will discover an unusual way to continue living by his side. A novel that explores the limits of love and the depths of a woman’s psyche trapped in a dangerous utopia, as loneliness imposes its own rules.
Author:
Manuel Vilas
Edited by:
Eudoxia Binopoulou
Translation:
Nanna Papanikolaou
Cover design/illustration:
Christos Kourtoglou
Date of publication:
25/05/2026
Pages:
368
Dimensions:
13.3 x 20.5 εκ.
ISBN:
978-960-572-845-8
Publication:
2026
Categories:
Literature, Books, Foreign Literature
The fearless dribbler Manuel Vilas indeed takes revenge—and in all three of his works published here—yes, he takes revenge for poverty and fascism (Ordesa), for confinement and obedience (The Kisses), for the commercialization and numbness that plague human relationships (Us). All three of these works are valuable exercises in self-awareness, especially the last one, which culminates in an unexpected and shocking way."
– Yorgos-Icaros Babasakis, Ta Nea
With "We", Manuel Vilas proves once again that he can transform the most universal human experiences—love, loss, and memory—into high-intensity literature that moves the reader without resorting to melodrama. It is a novel that poses a timeless question: how much can love survive when death has already made its appearance?
– Stelios Papagrigoriou, CNN GreeceVilas's provocative "We" refuses to offer easy moral consolations. By creating a heroine who claims her absolute sexual and existential autonomy against the social stereotypes of grief, the author signs an intriguing story about the extremes to which the human mind can go in order to defeat oblivion.
– Kyriaki Beioglou, Efimerida ton Sintakton
In this book, too, Vilas delves into the depths of human relationships, where love gives way to a profound loneliness.
– Dionysis Marinos, K Magazine
Manuel Vilas
Manuel Vilas was born in 1962 in Barbastro, Spain. He is an award-winning poet and prose writer. He writes regularly for the newspaper El País.
He has published eight novels and a large number of poetry collections and essays. Ordesa (Ikaros, 2020) was published in Spain in 2018, became a massive bestseller, was voted by El País as one of the best books of the year, and established Vilas as one of the most important contemporary Spanish writers, on a par with Javier Cercas and Antonio Muñoz Molina. The book has been translated into more than twenty languages, and in 2019 it was awarded the Femina Étranger Prize.
His book Alegría (2019) was a finalist for the 2019 Planeta Prize and has so far been translated into more than seven languages.
