'The Secret of Water', Tomás Martín Tamayo's new book
The Alange Swamp is the setting of the latest novel from this Extremaduran author, with a story of intrigue that includes revenge and murder, revolving around the mystery of the submerged villages of Extremadura.
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In post-war Extremadura, local landowners managed to construct a dam without following the original project plan, flooding the village of Encinares. It happened in Alange, in the province of Badajoz, next to Mérida, and it is the true story from which Tomás Martín Tamayo departs in order to create the fiction of 'The Secret of Water'.
Over 400 pages, the writer weaves a plot of intrigue and mystery, including murders and fictitious characters, along with real ones, such as Martín Tamayo's own great-grandfather or politicians from recent history.
It is the third novel written by the Extremaduran author, who is already working on another two: 'Tiberius's Sorrow', a continuation of 'The Enigma of Pontius Pilate', and his fifth work, which will have the 9/11 attacks against the Twin Towers of New York as its background.
