For me, words are just words, nothing else

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels