An audio dramatization at the heart of the mystery

Every day, the landscape of Belesar (Lugo) dawns with a mystery.

The Miño river remains hidden under thick wisps of fog.

It does not reveal its presence until the sun dilutes that morning white mantle.

The powerful landscape of vineyards planted on terraces located in the Ribeira Sacra, where the complexity of heroic viticulture takes place, inspired the writer Dolores Redondo (San Sebastián, 54 years old) for

The one that is one of her great sales successes is also full of secrets.

It opens with an unexpected death and a dark and unknown family story.

Its pages have been transformed into sound through the audio dramatization that Audible, Amazon's platform, has made of its text.

“The Ribeira Sacra almost always sounds like water on the stone of rivers and Romanesque architecture.

Here it rains a lot and the influence of the rivers is undeniable.

It is what has marked the landscape, what has shaped the canyons century after century”, comments the author in mid-January at the Galician Vía Romana winery, one of the settings of the book that also appears in its audio adaptation.

It was important to her that the recording of the new

winner of the 2016 Planeta Award, be done in the original settings.

The production team has left the A Ponte studio, in Santiago de Compostela, to get closer to the nature of Lugo to record the ambient sounds that appear in the episodes.

The writer learned about the area through her sister, came to this winery as an anonymous tourist and completed a group tour with other visitors.

“It is not the largest in the area, but it is the most peculiar.

The way it's placed on the hillside, what you see and hear in it... Beauty is important in crime fiction and it's something I look for in all my works.

Because of the contrast it builds with the sordid parts of the story,” she explains.

I will give you all this

has sold more than 650,000 copies in Spanish.

The novel has been translated into 21 languages ​​and is published in Catalan, Galician and Basque.

The figures multiply with the Baztán trilogy.

Such success has meant that all of her titles have been adapted into movies or comics and the author has learned to bequeath her work, although she prefers to do so by staying close to the readaptation process.

“There is a DNA in my stories that must be taken care of so that it is not betrayed,” she says.

The writer Dolores Redondo (right) and Anna Soler-Pont, responsible for the sound script of 'Todo esto te daré'.

The journalist and documentalist Paula Cons has been in charge of directing this audio dramatization.

And Anna Soler-Pont, founder of the Pontas literary agency and Redondo's agent, a close collaborator of the writer for more than a decade, is the one who has written the script for this adaptation, in which she has taken special care of "the sound of silence ”, she explains herself.

“I don't think I would have allowed anyone other than Anna to do this experiment.

The first time they tried to adapt one of my texts, she was the one who recommended that I not do it if I was going to suffer in the process;

she who told me that she had to know how to face the changes that were going to inevitably come ”, confesses the Basque.

Readers of

You will find several changes in the Audible version.

For example, characters have been removed, while others have been merged into one to condense the content.

"If the book was read aloud, it would last 10 and a half hours, while this dramatized version lasts a third," says Soler-Pont.

The new story has an original soundtrack created by the Galician artist Guadi Galego.

In the novel, a writer named Manuel travels to Galicia to examine the body of her husband, who died in a traffic accident.

There he discovers that the investigation into the case has been closed too quickly.

His powerful political family, the Muñiz de Dávila family, rejects his presence.

But, before leaving, she allies with Nogueira, a retired civil guard, and Lucas, a priest who was a childhood friend of her husband, to reconstruct the secret life of whom they thought they knew well and discover if her death was accidental.

Redondo brings a feminine look to the relationship between these three men, who are very different from each other.

“In the story, this friendship against the odds is fundamental.

Although they have different lives and different reasons, they come together to solve the mystery.

They go from colliding like freight trains to understanding.

They teach each other."

Soler-Pont has maintained this alloy of personalities as one of the pillars of the sound story.

"In 2016, perhaps there was not so much talk about the new masculinity, but today it is a basic issue that we must analyze," she defends.

“I remember the importance that radio soap operas had in the lives of my grandparents.

I have recovered that tradition through my children, who are from a generation that has gotten used to hearing again”, says Redondo.

For this reason, to refer to the new audience that will reach

Audible's

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