Emily, a beautiful and intelligent woman of thirty-five, sees the days go past as an executive of a big business, all the while conducting an affair. One day, while she’s in Seattle with her lover, she receives a phone call offering her a position of responsibility in a government ministry. Full of hope, she begins a new stage in her life, without knowing that she’s about to enter the dark world of politics: a place where secrets and lies are protected as far as their ultimate consequences. While she plays the role of a useful puppet, Emily will see herself enmeshed in a public intrigue in which there are many interests at stake, and in which each one of the people involved is prepared to make them count with methods as sinister as they are effective….
Emily or The Games of Power is a novel about the dimensions of power and the failures of personality in a society which only seems capable of thwarting its corrupt offshoots when vulnerable people are protected with extraordinary methods. Employing a scientific structure, where no detail is left to chance, the novel aims to be for human life what an experiment is to nature: a model that explains what it analyses.
“An ambitious and intelligent novel that brings narrative pace and literary quality together in an admirable way”. Francesc Miralles, writer and journalist.
Francisco J Tapiador [@tapiador] was born in 1973 in Valladolid. After gaining his doctorate in Physical Sciences in 2000 he went to live in England, where he spent four years dedicated to scientific research and to writing. At the age of 22 he published his first story for Difácil. In 2002 he won the the Bridport prize for English poetry. He’s published his poems in English and in Spanish in the magazines Babab and Octavo. His poetic anthology Balaje y Verdemar has been published by Renacimiento (2016). He is the author of an essay about El Quijote published by Cátedra. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Cambridge, Paris, Colorado, Oklahoma, Mannheim and the California Institute of Technology (JPL/NASA). He’s been Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Biochemistry of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, where he teaches Physics and Climate Change. He’s also a professor of Science and Contemporary Culture at UCLM’s School of Architecture.
