Making Love in Madrid

Anna Tambour, author of The Spotted Lily and Monterra's Deliciosa and Other Tales, describes the novella as "a fantasia of amnesia, of lives that need filling, of writers of every tense, of talent and dry lemons and melted cheese; of giggling and tangled sheets and denture adhesive, competition and tenderness, a bloodless bullfight, the power of a giant smile to diminish greatness—a modern mannerist story around a story."