Ayer sin Mañana

This is the fictional story of a forbidden and failed romance in a young couple from Pennsylvania. It is not till years later that their love finally prevails.

Ayer sin manana, or past without a future, is the story of a couple who from a distance see each other for the first time in a suburban train station of Pennsylvania. Mutual admiration and feelings of love are inevitable as well as irrepressible, even if they also are inopportune and forbidden. The lovers fail therefore to find a common future for themselves. And it is not till years later that they meet again, in another land, amidst the forces of Spanish history, art, religion, and human nature.

G. A. de Leon is a retired neurologist and neuropathologist interested in the meaning and nature of consciousness, emotion, and speech. He is the author of a monograph on the subject, The Ingenious Ways of Consciousness / Objectifying, Emotional, and Articulate Perception: A Clinical Study, and has otherwise published six novels written in Spanish, including El Pecado de Acteon, Aquella Dicha Prohibida, and Brisa.