Julio Llamazares (Vegamián, León, 1955) has a Colt 45 caliber revolver on his workroom bedside table. Vagalume means firefly in Galician and here it alludes to that wandering light in which Manolo Castro, his character, wrote tirelessly and made a good number of works that he hid from everyone, including his family.
"It is a suspense novel that involves a literary essay, a reflection on the need to write," he says. In his new novel he warns that writing, more than a vocation, "is a way of surviving time, the emptiness of days and their irreparable loss"