Ferrero, like Javier Marías or Antonio Muñoz Molina, is a writer of that new Spanish prose which developed after La Movida Madrileña (Madriliene Movement), one of the early post-modern currents.
[1][2] Ferrero's debut, Chinese-set novel Belver Yin (1981) was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed in post-Franco Spanish literature, and helped him to establish himself as one of the major writers of La Movida years.
With novels set in Tibet (Opium, 1986), Barcelona (Lady Pepa, 1988) or Berlin (Débora Blenn, 1988), Ferrero continued during the 1980s a literary exploration characterized by eclectic intertextuality.
In calm, very precise language and in a very detailed, cleverly devised structure Ferrero tells in his novel a gripping love story and at the same time makes us consider the limits of our perception.
The novel is a good example which again makes clear Ferrero's basic themes: "Destruction begins with the first tears in the cradle and ends when, in our parchment-like hands, time dies."