Summary
Augustin Fernandez Mallo: Stretcher Dream In the middle of the Nevada desert there is a lonely tree with hundreds of pairs of shoes hanging from it. Further along Route 50, a lonely prostitute falls in love with a photo collector. In Las Vegas, an Argentine is building an unusual monument to Jorge Luis Borges. On the run from the authorities, Kenny takes up permanent residence in a legal non-place, Singapore International Airport. These are some of the narrative threads that make up this unusually structured novel. It is praised as one of the most daring experiments in Spanish literature in recent times. It abounds in references to independent cinematography, collage, conceptual art, practical architecture, the history of computers and the decadence of the novel. Nocilla Dream finds great beauty in the void and reveals to us some of the key truths of contemporary experience.
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