The book has been honored with numerous awards including the Premio Calamo Libro del Ano 2024, Premio Andalucia de la Critica 2025, Premio Andalucia de las Letras 2025, Premio Dulce Chacon 2025.

The film adaptation of the book is in preparation.

The boldest and most brilliant novel of the year is this monumental work by David Ucles, a story about the Spanish Civil War with a surreal touch, and a Cervantes-style narrator who immediately captivates the reader. El Pais 

David Ucles manages to narrate with humor, intelligence, and large doses of imagination. An otherworldly magical realism full of lyricism envelops the entire novel. El Mundo

David Ucles has brilliantly revived magical realism – a genre rarely chosen for addressing historical themes – sparking a discussion around writing, ideology, and history. La Vanguardia

In this mosaic of stories, the author chooses to follow in the footsteps of magical realism veterans such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende. Ucles' originality offers literature a new, pulsating rhythm. Rockdelux

Ucles reconstructs violence, crimes, and war disputes, but also dreams and ideals, in a style of magical realism that approaches the work of Gunter Grass in The Tin Drum. Ara

No contemporary novel has moved me as deeply as The Peninsula of Empty Houses. Ian Gibson