Author · Lucía del Umbral·Spanish
I found in the Tormes mud a coin that serves equally as absolution or as noose, your worship.
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Opening scene
After a brawl by the river, Lázaro finds a coin bearing the stamp of a merchant who claims to have been robbed by a famished boy. The blind man reads the coin as a trap, the merchant as proof, and Lázaro as an opportunity too rare not to be suspicious. Unsettling is the fact that the piece seems to have been deliberately half-washed so that only the convenient side of the story remains visible. In a city where the poor carry others' guilt with ease, a single coin can weigh as much as a sentence.
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