Que conste que existió

A thirty-cent notebook. A biscuit tin buried beneath the floorboards of a back room. A ghost who has waited more than a century for someone to write down his name.

Spanning five generations of the Anguizola family, from 1903 to 2026, from the Caribbean port of Colón to Panama City, this novel moves through the building of the Canal, the American Canal Zone with its gold and silver payrolls, coups, dictatorship and the U.S. invasion of 1989. A midwife who records the dead nobody counts. A watchmaker from Dresden who arrives on a ship that should never have docked. An heir who finally reads what everyone else only kept.

A Panamanian family saga of magical realism — funny, furious and tender — about what official history erases and one family refuses to forget. The English edition is in preparation; the novel is available now in Spanish and German.