Nominated for the Skroutz Book Awards 2025.

The now-retired Nikasio visits his grandson every Thursday at the Ortuella cemetery. He is one of the many children who lost their lives in a gas explosion at a school in this small town, an accident that shocked the Basque Country and all of Spain in 1980.

Through the adventures of the grandfather, who gradually emerges as a powerful figure, through the testimony of the mother many years later, and through the chronicle of what happened to the family, we witness how the shocking tragedy changed people, how it brought unexpected aspects to light, overturning everything completely.

Surrendering to Aramburu’s remarkable mastery, the reader is immersed in a story of unexpected emotions, a psychological and literary exploration with a sharp scalpel, captivated by the journey of the protagonists’ lives, in a novel of exceptional emotional density that can be read again and again, until the very last line.

“Raw, written with respect and genuine emotion, magnificent!” - Esquire

“The Child is a portrait, moving and shocking at the same time, of the fragile human nature.” - El Cultural

“With a unique ability to penetrate the innermost sanctuaries of pain, The Child is a book that literally speaks. It is read with a deep sense of suspended anguish.” - Corriere della Sera