by Andrés Barba is a 2023 contemporary ghost story that explores themes of memory, mourning, and the intersection of past and present. Plot Overview
The narrative explores how the past can hold individuals captive, using loops to show how identical actions can be both the same and different.
Both the protagonist and the boy are "trapped" in their own ways; their connection eventually helps them liberate themselves from their emotional "empty houses".
At 144 pages, it is a brief but intense psychological fiction that avoids unnecessary dialogue or description. Awards
El último día de la vida anterior (Spanish Edition) - Amazon.com
Critics compare the novel's atmosphere and precision to Henry James's The Turn of the Screw and the gothic tales of Shirley Jackson.