No one sleeps

The Spanish writer Juan Jose Mias, one of the most prominent Spanish novelists, returns with a new novel titled "No One Sleeps," borrowing the name from one of Puccini's operatic pieces, which tells the legend of Princess Turandot, who decides to accept marriage to the young man who solves her three riddles, and whoever fails has his neck hung on the palace walls, to win her in the end. Between the operatic song and the legend, with obsession over humans who resemble birds, most of Mias's novels are romantic, and most closely aligned with obsessive love feelings. The work begins with Luothia being dismissed from her job as a programmer at a company, so she decides to buy a taxi and work on it. The new profession is not only for earning a living but also for searching for a missing lover, as she roams Madrid to find him. In this wandering, Mias reveals his beloved city and passes small stories that come together to create an epic, an epic that ends with an unexpected surprise that cannot be predicted. Mias uses all his skills as a conductor in narrative technique to tell a story that initially seems simple, but as the work progresses, the trap that the writer has set for us becomes clear. It is one of the traps that readers seek in a novel because through it, the enjoyment of reading is complete.