The Goldsmith's Secret is one of those classics that, from the moment it is published, is published in language after language, and is printed without interruption, edition after edition; one of the favorite gift books of quality literature readers; one of the chamber novellas that over the years has become the pride of the genre: an example of economical writing, which envelops and excludes you from the world for the duration of the reading and beyond; one of the books in which there is not a single superfluous word. Short and intense, round and moving, a novella that is a jewel, a small item made of magical language. This is a book that names in unforgettable words the material from which memories are built. A love story about time, lyrical, precise as a clock, with a perfect mechanism although mechanical, completely analog. The Goldsmith's Secret builds for us a solid space – a Spanish town, New York streets – but these are above all literary places where a handful of characters walk, who seem to have lived there forever.