Summary
Rodrigo Munoz Avia: The Shop of Happiness
The funniest book you will read this year. Carmelo Duran isn't asking for much. All he needs is a computer connected to the Internet, an online supermarket and a few Internet interlocutors to argue with. But everything changes when a mistake in an order brings him into contact with Marie Carmen, a customer service representative at a supermarket. The Fortune Shop is an epistolary novel composed of several e-mails, and its unusual main character is an endlessly adorable grunt who unexpectedly begins a specific love affair and from that moment his whole life changes. This is a story involving real people, with all their everyday thoughts and feelings, complicated relationships and hidden fears. This is a novel that will make you laugh, make you wonder and think deeply. Discreetly intertwined with analysis and criticism of love, family, friendly and neighborly relations, as well as society, the world and the achievements of the modern era. A story about solitude, loneliness and alienation. But also a warm and touching journey into the depths of the human soul and psyche. One of the books that says more than what is written in it, a novel that can be read between the lines.
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