- 2003 edition, 260 pages
- Published by Canonogate Books, UK
- Softcover with fold in flaps. B Format
- Very good condition, near new
Translated from Spanish by John King. There are things we all want to forget.
He represents The Company. He offers a range of the latest chemicals designed to make the consumer forget. It may be just one incident. It may be a whole life. He can help you. Provide you with a life without guilt. Without personal responsibliity. Tempted?
Moving through a world of cynical consumerism, be it in Arizona, South East Asia or Europe, he is under the constant scutiny of The Company. The alienating environments that surround our faceless protagonist intensify the feeling that he does not belong to any one country, place or, indeed, time. His life is spent in transit on deserted motorways, in crowded airports and anonymous hotel rooms, punctuated by business deals with similarily nameless customers and random, meaningless sexual encounters.
But under the increasing influence of the chemicals he sells, he finds his past, his present and his future, along with his own identity, disintegrating. He begins to forget he even exist....
Still tempted?
A disturbing and exhilarating novel that is alarming, not only for its disarming humour, but for the observations and conclusions that suggest such a rality is not too far away.
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