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“El mundo es esta casa”, dice Clara, mientras pretende proteger a sus seres queridos de un exterior que le resulta cada vez más amenazante. Clara se atrinchera con su padre y su hija Flor en un apartamento oscuro que irremediablemente se va desmoronando sobre ellos. La azotea se convierte en su último resquicio de libertad. Un pájaro enjaulado es el único testigo del miedo y la resistencia de Clara contra aquellos que intentan destruirla.

This is a satirical/historical novel of the life of a fictional Soviet era artist, Vladimir Daniilovich Myukis who was orphaned during the Second World War. By the early 1950s, Myukis now in a street gang of war orphans was arrested by the police for vandalism. The vandalism consisted of drawing large pictures of elephants on the bombed out buildings in hisw native city of Novogrudok in what is now Belarus. The arresting officers realized that Myukis had real art ability so they sent him to art school. From there he was recruited into the KGB where he forged signatures for their agents. He...

"Su gran título es una promesa que se cumple: El valle de nadie -de cierto modo una historia distópica- logra ser una de esas novelas libres que despojan a la humanidad de sus fachadas y dejan a las mujeres y a los hombres en manos de sí mismos, arrinconados, en la necesidad de volver a aprender lo humano. Tengo la impresión que su compromiso con lo que narra va a servirles a muchos lectores para caer en cuenta de qué cosas somos capaces de hacer como especie." --Ricardo Silva Romero ¿Puede morir un país? O, aún peor, ¿puede quitarse la vida? ¿Lo permitiría el mundo? ¿Qué...

Between wars (1918-1939) Benjamin Jarnes (1888-1949) was considered among the most appreciated Spanish writers, and his novels were distinguished by the European critiques of the time. "Locura y muerte de Nadie," along "Paula y Paulita," "Escenas junto a la muerte" and "Teoria del zumbel," belong to a fiction cycle, unique in the peninsular narrative of those years; novels in which Jarnes experiments with the new forms of metafiction to highlight the existential condition of the human being in the newly technified mass society. "Locura y muerte de Nadie," simultaneously "agonic" and...