Don't Come Back Here Any More

Trilogía del amor oscuro #3

by Pedro Menchén

Don't Come Back Here Any More is an entertaining and original thriller with two atypical characters: a young gay man and a Colombian assassin, both met by accident and forced to confront, in the midst of the whirlwind of action, their own inner demons and to reflect on the dark side of humanity.
Conceived as a Christmas tale, this emotive and fast-paced story poses on one side the moral problem of violence, and on the other the vulnerability of feelings in intimate relationships. One question reverberates throughout the whole plot: Is reconciliation possible after a painful breakup?

THE AUTHOR AND HIS WORK
Pedro Menchén is a Spanish writer, born in 1952. Known especially for his Trilogy of Dark Love, comprising the novels A Distant Beach (1999), See you in Casablanca (2001) and Don't Come Back Here Any More (2005). He has also published two books of short stories: Who Can Listen to a Guy who Comes through Your Window Stark Naked at Midnight? (1988), which gained him the first prize of the city of Acalá, and Bloody Lips (2002), plus one short novel: So long, Kid (1989), winning the City of Barbastro Prize, an autobiography: Written in Water (2011), and more recently, three travel books: Happiness Doesn't Wait (2016), A Gentleman from Washington (2017), and A Trip to Texas (2018), the essay Diary of a Frustrated Writer (2016), and two plays: The Apocalypse is in the Street (2017) and Ballad for a Criminal (2018).
For many years Pedro Menchén has lived in voluntary exile from the literary circles and the world of the media in Benidorm, a Spanish resort city on the Mediterranean Coast.

168 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 31, 2005

About the author

Pedro Menchén is a Spanish writer, born in 1952. Known especially for his Trilogy of Dark Love, comprising the novels A Distant Beach (1999), See you in Casablanca (2001) and Don’t Come Back Here Any More (2005), he has also published two books of short stories: Who Can Listen to a Guy who Comes through Your Window Stark Naked at Midnight? (1988), which gained him the first prize of the city of Alcalá, y Bloody Lips (2002), plus one short novel: So Long, Kid (1989), winning the City of Barbastro Prize, and an autobiography: Written in Water (2011), all of which have confirmed him as one of the most interesting authors of present-day Spanish literature.

Reviews

[Alvaro Jaña Valenzuela]

Eurocentrista. Los latinos siempre somos ladrones y narcos …… protagonista absurdo

[Antonio Heras]

Entretenida novela, mucho mejor de la pinta que podría tener por su portada/argumento. Merece una oportunidad.