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Sobre estos tres escenarios se han librado batallas: la isla gallega de San Simón albergó un campo de concentración durante la guerra civil española, Vietnam fue la gran herida de la Norteamérica de los sesenta, la costa de Normandía fue testigo del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Como las estrellas, que nos alumbran aunque estén extinguidas, los caídos de estas contiendas están unidos a los protagonistas de esta historia que, desde los mismos lugares pero hoy, entrelazan sus destinos mediante conexiones sorprendentes.Con una intensidad creativa que no da tregua al lector, Trilogía de la guerra despliega un caleidoscopio de narraciones que cristalizan en un insólito pero certero retrato del siglo xx y el desconcertante xxi. Como si W. G. Sebald y David Lynch se hubieran aliado para desvelarnos la cara B de nuestra realidad.Agustín Fernández Mallo, uno de los grandes renovadores de nuestras letras, llega aquí a cotas no exploradas y escribe su proyecto más ambicioso,

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Cuando el mundo se desmorona, solo nos queda el amor.Venecia en algún momento del siglo XXI. La humanidad se encamina, sin saberlo, al colapso mientras una pareja recorre la ciudad, ajena a las señales que anuncian el final de la sociedad tal y como la conocemos. Él es profesor de Latín y disfruta de un año sabático; ella es escritora y trabaja en un ensayo sobre el amor. Ambos están destinados a desempeñar un papel fundamental en la transición hacia un nuevo mundo.El libro de todos los amores ofrece una nueva mirada sobre un tema universal e indaga en las diferentes dinámicas que el amor adopta, tanto en el ámbito íntimo de la pareja como en otros aspectos de la vida pública, como la política, la economía o la ciencia.Jugando con estilos y géneros, mezclando hábilmente ficción, poesía y ensayo, Agustín Fernández Mallo ha escrito una fascinante novela filosófica que apuesta radicalmente por la esperanza desde la distopía del presente.

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In The Things We’ve Seen, his most ambitious and accomplished novel to date, Agustín Fernández Mallo captures the strangeness and interconnectedness of human existence in the twenty-first century. A writer travels to the small uninhabited island of San Simón, 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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A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustín Fernández Mallo's Nocilla Trilogy – made up of the novels Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Experience and Nocilla Lab – is a project for our time. Reading takes the form of literary channel surfing: we flick through an audacious network of chopped-up stories, recycled texts and mixed-media collages, and try to find the signal in the noise, reflecting the dizzying search for meaning that characterizes life in our digital age. The globe-spanning narratives that explode across the trilogy take us from a lone poplar tree in the Nevada desert to a barnacle-covered cliff in Galicia, Spain, through scientific treatises and film-editing manuals, personal journals and comic strips. The books are full of references to indie cinema, theoretical physics, conceptual art, practical architecture, the history of computers and the decadence of the novel. And yet, for all the freewheeling, fragmentary swagger, a startling order emerges and takes hold. Peerless in its daring, Nocilla Trilogy charts a hidden and exhilarating cartography of contemporary experience.

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A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustín 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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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 metaphysics, geology, linguistics, AI. 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, Agustín 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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