Málaga
The Malaga writer Javier Castillo has stopped by the Cadena SER studios in Malaga to talk about his new book, coinciding with the success of the series La chica de nieve on Netflix. With The Day Sanity Was Lost, his first novel, he became a publishing phenomenon. It has been translated into 10 languages and has been published in more than 63 countries. Likewise, the audiovisual rights have been acquired for the production of the television series. His second novel, The Day Love Was Lost, achieved great public and critical success, as did Everything That Happened with Miranda Huff, The Snow Girl, and The Soul Game. With them he has reached 1,400,000 copies sold.
The audiovisual adaptation of La chica de nieve, the most widely read novel during confinement in Spain, has been adapted by Netflix for the small screen, it has just been released and is being the most watched series on the platform internationally and whose filming was developed in Malaga with José Coronado and Milena Smit as protagonists.
Now Castillo has just published his sixth novel El cuco de cristal, where he tells the story of Cora Merlo, a first-year resident doctor, who suffers a sudden heart attack that forces her to have a heart transplant. Still convalescing, the young woman is visited by a strange woman with an enigmatic offer: to spend a few days in Steelville, a small inland town, to learn about the life of her son Charles, the donor of her heart. You can now listen to the interview.
