Hunting the Last Wild Man - Softcover

A blackly funny novel that affirms both life and sisterly relationships - however maddening and contradictory they may be.

Candela's family is like Little Women filmed by Almodovar. Six sisters, their mother, lotto-mad grandmother and miserly aunt, all stuck in the same tiny apartment, trying to escape. Candela works in a funeral parlour ('The Long Goodbye'), and one day she is sent the body of the patriarch of a gypsy family. The patriarch's last wish was to be buried with his walking stick, his hat, and a picture of the King. Nothing out of the ordinary, Candela thinks - until she finds a half kilo of diamonds in the walking stick. And then she meets his son...