Pursuit and murder of the mouse king performed by the sewer choir and conducted by a failed writer

Original Title: Persecución y asesinato del rey de los ratones representada por el coro de las cloacas bajo la dirección de un escritor fracasado

When the failed writer sets out to tell his traditional Christmas story, as he does every year, he is unaware of what the adventure has in store for him. Along the way, he will come across some of the great authors who have engaged with the genre, including Andersen, Calders, Capote, Dickens, Hoffmann, and Monzó, not to mention the omnipresent Kafka and Shakespeare. The result will be a most colourful and dashing tale performed by a small chorus of rodents and a mixed cast consisting not only of the customary Scrooges, but also mice of the calibre of Philip Marlowe, Josephine the Singer, the one and only Charles Bukowski, and none other than Lieutenant Colombo. In short this is a special Christmas story which will take shape as the reader becomes familiar with the author’s tricks on his quest to find a work that may only exist inside his own head.

Praises

“His writing is as limpid as a Hockney painting. Anyone who starts reading him will be hooked until the last page.”
Roberto Bolaño

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Details

Acantilado

November 2022

192 pages

Novel