A novel about a generation that believed it could change the world… and had to learn to live in it.
What happens when the ideas that gave meaning to a life confront reality? Hours of Stone is a novel about a generation that believed it could change the world… and had to learn to live in it.
From the final years of Franco’s dictatorship through the consolidation of democracy, the story follows the trajectory of Luis, a young man shaped by religious education, political activism, and the experience of repression. His time in prison, his involvement in the underground movement, and his subsequent integration into the institutional machinery trace the journey of a conscience that evolves alongside the country.
At the heart of the narrative lies his relationship with Ixone: love, reunions, a shared life project, and a mirror of the contradictions of an entire era. Together they will build a family and a biography in which intimacy and history interweave: the political transition, the NATO referendum, entry into Europe, the fall of the Berlin Wall.
With reflective prose and a lucid perspective, the novel explores the great themes of our time: power, truth, identity, and the passage from idealism to experience.
A work that combines memory, politics, and life to answer an essential question:
What remains of us when the world we wanted to build becomes the world we live in?
With sober and evocative prose, Hours of Stone combines historical memory, a coming-of-age novel, and generational reflection to construct an intimate portrait of late Franco-era Spain and the hopes, contradictions, and wounds of an entire era.
Hours of Stone is a generational novel about the students who fought Franco’s regime and what remained of their ideals when History swept past them.
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