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In The Things We've Seen, his most ambitious and accomplished novel
to date, Agustin Fernandez Mallo captures the strangeness and
interconnectedness of human existence in the twenty-first century.
A writer travels to the small uninhabited island of San Simon, used
as a Franquist concentration camp during the Spanish Civil War, and
witnesses events which impel him on a wild goose chase across
several continents. In Miami, an ageing Kurt Montana, the fourth
astronaut who secretly accompanied Neil Armstrong and co. to the
moon, revisits the important chapters in his life, from serving in
the Vietnam War to his memory of seeing earth from space. In
Normandy, a woman embarks on a walking tour of the D-Day beaches
with the goal of re-enacting, step by step, another trip taken
years before. Described as the novel David Lynch and W. G. Sebald
might have written had they joined forces to explore the B-side of
reality, The Things We've Seen is a mind-bending novel for our
disjointed times.
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Nocilla Lab (Paperback)
Agustin Fernandez Mallo; Translated by Thomas Bunstead
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A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, AgustÃn Fernández
Mallo’s Nocilla Trilogy – Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Experience,
and Nocilla Lab – presents multiple narratives of people and
places that reflect the world in the digital age. In this third,
standalone volume, we find the author bedridden in Thailand after
being knocked down by a motorbike, an accident which fortuitously
gave him the time and space to begin writing the trilogy. Seven
years later, when he travels with his girlfriend to Sardinia, they
come across an old penitentiary that has been converted into an
agritourism site. In a tour de force reminiscent of Adolfo Bioy
Casares’ The Invention of Morel, a story of suspense and
exploration unfolds in the uninhabited hotel. From autofiction to
horror story to graphic novel, Nocilla Lab is a fitting conclusion
to one of the most daring literary experiments of the twenty-first
century.
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The Book of All Loves
Agustin Fernandez Mallo; Translated by Thomas Bunstead
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In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the
near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers speak to each
other. They parse, with precision, with familiarity, the endless
aspects of their love. Out of their dialogues, piece by piece, a
composite image of love takes form, one that moves outwards
beyond the realm of relationships and into
philosophy, geology, physics, linguistics. Years previously,
a writer and her husband, a Latin professor, stay in
Venice while she works on a text. As they roam the city, strange
occurrences accumulate, signalling that the world around them is
heading towards a point of no return. Blending fiction and essay,
poetry and philosophy, AgustÃn Fernández Mallo’s The Book
of All Loves is a startling, expansive work of imaginative
agility, one that renders love unfamiliar so as to renew it, and
makes the case for hope in the midst of a disintegrating present.
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