THE HOPKINS SAGA - LA SAGA DE LOS HOPKINS
The Hopkins Saga: A Monument to Memory and Place The Work and Its Author The Hopkins Saga is an ongoing tetralogy by the Algeciras-born writer Juan Jesús Ladrón de Guevara, begun in December 2014 and already exceeding a thousand pages. Conceived simultaneously as a historical, family and epistolary novel, as well as a social chronicle, its deepest impulse is the reconstruction—not the invention—of a real world which, without these pages, would vanish from the collective memory of the Campo de Gibraltar. The first instalment, From Algeciras to the Dardanelles (published in March 2023, with an English version in December 2025), covers the period 1905–1915. The second, The Golden Days (currently being written, scheduled for after the summer of 2026), spans 1918–1969. The third, The Decline of the Hopkins , will cover 1975–1992. The fourth, Return Home , will bring the arc to a close in 2014 with Charlotte Hopkins’s return to Gibraltar, one hundred years after her great-grandfathe...
