Papeles de un verano Javier Serena

FICTION | 2026 | 144 pages

Since the beginning of the summer of 2006, in a world on the brink of radical technological change, three friends – Javi, Federico and Fran – know that something is not quite right. A shadow has settled over Fran, threatening to upset the balance of their friendship forever. Javi and Federico try, to the best of their ability, to understand what might be tormenting their friend, while Fran himself cannot quite put a name to his anguish – though the three of them could do so, if they agreed, with a single phrase. But it is only after they have reached the point of no return in this story that the truth hidden behind their male entanglement will become clear to them: the problem is never the problem itself, but the way in which it is dealt with.

Summer Pages is the tale of a tragedy steeped in irony: one that highlights the social catastrophe resulting from the fact that men, all too often, fail to achieve the most basic of things: helping one another.

RIGHTS: spanish EDITORIAL ALMADÍA

“‘The lapses of memory are always linked to the disturbances of the heart,’ wrote Marcel Proust in his quest to recover lost time. And this is what Javier Serena writes about too: the inevitable irregularities between yesterday and today, between what one chooses to remember and what one prefers to forget. In Summer Pages, Serena interprets and performs yet another variation on the theme of sentimentality. A melody now more fully developed around the theme of dangerous friendship, featuring the figure of the damned and the enlightened, and everything that once departed and which, if it returns, returns forever changed.”
— Rodrigo Fresán
Papeles de un verano