The stories of Juan Jos� Mill�s, who began writing in the 1970s, depart from both the socially engaged, traditional realism and the linguistic experimentation of post-Francoist Spain. They are populated by strange characters: a man who discove...
What goes on under your bed when the lights go out and you're fast asleep? The Spanish best-seller Don’t Look Under The Bed is a novel quite unlike any that you’ve read before. Its impact will be felt by anyone who has ever, at any time in their ...
When their friend and neighbour Manuel is left an in coma after a car accident, Julio, a film set designer, and his wife, Laura, a masseuse in an urban spa, begin to journey down strange ways. The fact that they live in an apartment that is a mirror ...
Publishers Weekly “Top 10 Books of the Year” selectionFrom one of Spain’s most original authors comes a wild, absurdist story about a lonely man’s misguided attempts to connectLaid off from his job, Damián Lobo obsessively imagines himself a...
An odyssey of operatic proportions, featuring an obsession-fueled taxi driverAfter Lucía loses her job at an IT firm, she has a vision of her future career as a taxi driver, brought on by the intoxicating opera floating through her apartment’s air...
A son follows the breadcrumbs through a volume of Grimms’ Fairy Tales in search of his estranged fatherOn his eighteenth birthday, Carlos receives a strange gift: his father, whom he never knew, has died and left him his apartment. As he goes throu...