Eva Gª Saren de Urturi will culminate her Longevo saga with “The Path of the Father”, “A novel about what we held as a family”

June 17, 2025

In novels Longevo saga There are (human) characters who travel over time and live for tens of thousands of years. But its author, Eva Gª Saren de UrturiIt prevents them not fantasy stories, but a family saga. He misses the reason: protagonists of books with whom his literary career began, a trilogy that will now end up with Father’s journeyAll of them are members of the line, with their consequences, capable of living for centuries or millennia, and the conflict they face are basically among them.

They are long characters, as indicated by their name, but not eternal: ‘They can’t age but die. In fact, they almost always die of couples. They die a lot, ”says the author. This death is sometimes a mystery and forms an important pillar of plot, which also has a lot Thriller. For example, the suicide of Adrian’s mother, an archaeologist who is one of the protagonists of the saga. In addition, we can add conflicts between brothers, such as the one that separates Iago Ya Nagorno, an incarnation of good and evil, to which his father Lür is trying to keep together. And other extraordinary characters such as Vikingo Gunnar, son of Iaga and intellectual eminence, or ambiguous marion, who was a woman from Iaga before falling in love with Adriana. Good Jaleo Relationships and a complete gallery of characters Which is one of the elements that readers of the writer Alava as the most.

This third and last volumes occurred on Tuesday at noon in Madrid with food based on Drumba, in what was designed as an appointment in which “literature and gastronomy give hands through an exclusive menu inspired by thousands of years of history. Some have wondered if since the saga started 23,000 years ago, the offer would include some meal of the famous paleo diet that celebrities like so much and that it consists of reproduction of the way she ate in Paleolithic. Bingo: Start with smoking bison tartar taps served as a tribute to Altamira, a rock place Cantabria, which appears at some point of the trilogy. It would be followed by the Vikings (cured salmon), the classic Mediterranean world (grilled octopus), references to Camino de Santiago (fungal cake, truffle and cannon cheese) and even the desert inspired by lamb. Taste, through very diverse places and times, designed by chef Miguel Vidal In your restaurant Patch.

Trilogy

Sáenz de Urturi began writing its successful trilogy in 2009. The book of books published in 2012 its first installment, Old familyAnd although the launch worked well, it did not come where it would do their subsequent works, everything The best self. Two examples: The silence of a white city (2016), and Thriller set up in your native vitoria, it was translated into more than twenty languages and had a screen adaptation It triumphed in cinemas and Netflix; Its historical novel Aquitaine Was made with Price of the planet in Pandemica 2020. The same editorial organized by the price now publishes (or republic) these three volumes of their Longovos: In October, the first in the luxury edition of the hard envelope was released, in February the second was restored, Adam’s childrenSelf -created in its time (2014) and Now the one who was unpublished, comes to the bookstoreClosing for this saga, which goes through the history of humanity.

Saren de Urturi when he took the planet. / ElisEnda Pons

“Longevo saga It was the first novel I wrote (refers to his first installment) and Father’s journey It’s a tenth. There are nine novels in the middle and I was very concerned about the fact that the literary style remained cohesive, ”the author explained before journalists. Therefore, as far as the Republic is concerned, he partially rewrote the first two and won this third, which he regretted on her day left half, parked to focus on which one calls Kraken sagafolded again The White City trilogy (Novels The silence of a white city2016; Water ceremonies2017, and The gentlemen of the time2018) and for Kraken (Black book2022, and Urban angel2023), all with an inspector who carries this nickname as a protagonist.

From what he now publishes, basically because of the pressure of some readers who have many fans, “I had half the book, but everything has already been solved. Documentation trips or scenes and the first design remained on 274 pages, about half, about half. It is an intense novel, it mainly deals with family loyalty And it is the story of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, duels, meeting and Especially what we close as a family. In many cases, they seem not to learn, even if they have millennia: they communicate very little and many of them would solve a lot of traumas with conversation. “

The new novel begins with an explosion in the Hospital in New York, where Nagorno has just saved his life. Five bodies seem to be calculated by five Cauri shells, a symbol that indicates that the bodies belonged to the old family. Gunnar and Adriana feared that these deaths were responding to revenge, which will also introduce them forward, and make a flight. From there will be episodes of rivalry, passions and revenge that reveal the secrets that this old family maintains for millennia until they achieve the result that the editorial director of the planet, the planet Belén López CeladyHe described as “really unexpected” and with whom Sareni de Urturi says he feels “very happy”.

It was a saga that forced the writer to move a lot. Today there are stories that are happening in Bali, Santander or Plymouth (Massachussets), but also Viking’s adventures in Denmark or the medieval British islands, lines that come from ancient Sumeria and even moments in prehistoric Europe 23,000 years ago. To a wide range of characters are connected to the landscape and some visited them to document themselves“I was in Norway when he saw the Vikings lived thousands of years ago. In South Ireland, where the Battle of Kinsale was developed. In New York, the Pierpot Morgan Museum, which appears in this novel. books.