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It is a time of reckoning for Jos Mara lvarez, an aristocratic Spanish banker living in a Swiss village with his American wife. Nearing the end of a long and tumultuous life, he&;s overcome by hallucinatory memories of the past. Among his most cherished memories are those of his boyhood in 1950s Franco-era Spain and the bucolic afternoons he spent salmon fishing on the Sella River with his father, uncle, and much-loved younger brother. But these fond reveries are soon eclipsed by something greater. Jos&;s regrets and dark family secrets are flooding back, as is the devastating tragedy that drove Jos into exile and makes him bear the burden of a soul-deep guilt.