After six years of not publishing a narrative book for "adults", Xosé Manuel Martínez Oca delivers what is perhaps his best novel until now: ''Diario de Inverno''.

With ''Diario de Inverno'' Xosé Manuel Martínez Oca achieved his best novel as he knows how to adhere completely to the topic dealt with. By failing to flee forward by introducing fantastic or para-fantastic dinners as it was in his best previous novels .... The writer from A Estrada achieves to do his best novel without renouncing to what has always been his guidelines: not to bore the reader.

From the recession by Xesús González Gómez appeared in ''A Nosa Terra'' on July 14, 1994.