A psychologically twisting novel about a politically charged act of violence that echoes through a small Spanish town; a dazzling debut in the tradition of Daniel Alarcón and Mohsin Hamid

It's 2004 in Muriga, a quiet town in Spain's northern Basque Country, a place with more secrets than inhabitants. Five years have passed since the kidnapping and murder of a young local politician --- a family man and father --- and the town's rhythms have almost returned to normal. But in the aftermath of the Atocha train bombings in Madrid, an act of terrorism that rocked a nation and a world, the townspeople want a reckoning of Muriga's own troubled past: Everyone knows who pulled the trigger five years ago, but is the young man now behind bars the only one to blame?

ALL THAT FOLLOWED peels away the layers of a crime complicated by history, love and betrayal. The accounts of three townspeople in particular --- the councilman's beautiful young widow, the teenage radical now in jail for the crime and an aging American teacher hiding a traumatic past of his own --- hold the key to what really happened. And for these three, it's finally time to confront what they can find of the truth.

Inspired by a true story, ALL THAT FOLLOWED is a powerful, multifaceted novel about a nefarious kind of violence that can take hold when we least expect. Urgent, elegant and gorgeously atmospheric, Urza's debut is a book for the world we live in now, and it marks the arrival of a brilliant new writer to watch.