Two women in Prague - Juan Jose Miyas

I thought that what did not happen in people's lives has a greater impact than what did happen. Each of us carries inside him "something not," meaning: something that did not happen to him, yet it represents a greater importance in his life than "something yes," that is, what actually happened. There are people who mysteriously dedicate themselves to "something not" and abandon "something yes." I thought to myself: I was a skilled investigative writer, but what is most important in my life was not investigations that earned me awards, but a novel that does not exist. Each of us has a wound that oozes because of "the not," even "the yes," no matter how great, cannot heal it.***Between a writer who decided to live and write beside her left, and a widow searching for someone to write her biography, and a writer pursued by the question of identity, Miyas constructs a narrative maze weaving its threads from paradox and black humor. The narrator does not stand outside the story, but intertwines with the characters and events in a clever mirror game, where the narrator and the heroes exchange roles until the reader himself becomes part of this tangled fabric. "Two Women in Prague" is a novel about loneliness and the desire to belong, and about the stories we invent to understand who we are. Hayat Publications