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«Tengo el VIH y para protegerme os lo contaré todo.» El sorprendente debut finalista del Premio Strega que ha roto moldes en Italia. Jonathan tiene treinta y un años cuando empieza a sufrir una extraña febrícula que parece haberse instalado de forma permanentemente en su cuerpo. Ningún médico es capaz de encontrar la causa, hasta que algunas semanas después llega el fatídico diagnóstico: VIH. En esta nueva etapa de su vida Jonathan se enfrenta a la vertiginosa idea de su muerte, redefiniendo su posición frente al mundo y la idea que tiene de sí mismo. Pero no es fácil cuando tu...

Daniel has long been lost in his drug addiction and discouragement. Claude still believes that by working hard you can achieve something. The two live in Brussels and are dedicated to emptying houses of deceased people, most of them without relatives or from homes so poor that nobody wants to take charge of the move. Kasongo was someone in his country, but here he is lame, poor and has lost his lucky charm. Chantal is an exhausted single mother, burdened with responsibilities, fed up with her precarious life and the lack of a future, also for her little girl. Until Daniel finds in a house...

Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a novel that became a national bestseller and a huge hit movie. Fifteen years later, Joe is struggling to avoid the sophomore slump with his next novel when he gets a call: his father's had a stroke, so it's back to Bush Falls for the town's most famous pariah. His brother avoids him, his former classmates beat him up, and the members of the book club just hurl their copies of Bush Falls at his house. But with the help of some old friends, Joe...

Son los cambios, los trastocamientos y las metamorfosis los reales imperativos puestos de manifiesto en esta magnífica primera novela de José Acosta, destacado escritor de nuestra diáspora. La metamorfosis de un hombre que va de nombre en nombre en busca de su desintegración; los trastocamientos de los tiempos narrativos, que provocan una angustiante sensación de vértigo; los constantes cambio en los espacios, las geografías múltiples: el Caribe rural y urbano, Nueva York. También inciden la zona negra de los cultos al Maligno, el orbe tenebroso de las sectas, ambiciones y conflictos ...