Nocilla Dream

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Nocilla Dream is one of the most daring literary experiments of recent years, exploring the mysterious connections between the lives of marginal figures in a globalised society. Everything starts in the Nevada desert, where a solitary tree is covered in pairs of shoes. By a butterfly effect, a chain of events affects a host of bad B-movie characters littered across the globe: brothel blondes in the Midwest dream of absconding eastwards with their favourite clients; anti-crats live in newly formed micro-nations underground; an Argentine man living in a motel in Las Vegas builds a peculiar monument to Jorge Luis Borges.

Full of references to indie cinema, collage, conceptual art, practical architecture, the history of computers and the decadence of the novel, the first instalment of the Nocilla Trilogy finds beauty in emptiness and kick- started a regeneration in Spanish literature.

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A breathtaking work of innovation and heart.
Stuart Evers, Guardian Best Books of 2015

An encyclopedia, a survey, a deranged anthropology. Nocilla Dream is just the cold-hearted poetics that might see America for what it really is. There is something deeply strange and finally unknowable to this book, in the very best way a testament to the brilliance of Agustn Fernndez Mallo.
Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet

With this bitter-sweet, violently poetic dream, Agustn Fernndez Mallo establishes himself as the most original and powerful author of his generation in Spain.
Mathias Enard, author of Zone

Imagine an intellectual roadtrip flick with cameos by the likes of Thomas Bernhard, Jorge Luis Borges, and Chuang Tzu, projected in a desert nightscape against a multi-fabricd patchwork then think again. A melodious ode to the intentionally lost and the carelessly defeated, this onell keep you dreaming on your feet long after its consumed you.
Travis Jeppesen, author of The Suiciders

Author Bio

Agustin Fernandez Mallo was born in La Corura in 1967. He is a qualified physicist and since 2000 has been collaborating with various cultural publications in order to highlight the connection between art and science. His Nocilla Trilogy brought about an important shift in contemporary Spanish writing and paved the way for the birth of a new generation of authors, known as the .Nocilla Generation..