Bøger af Carlos Maleno

A disquieting, haunting work, The Endless Rose begins when a one-legged woman¿s manuscript is accepted by a small publishing house consisting of two friends. Stunned and excited by her writing, they invite her to visit them in the south of Spain.The hypnotic, gut-wrenching events that follow¿revolving around a brutal murder mentioned in the book¿s first pages¿are plunged into an atmosphere of dreams, violence, and bizarre coincidence.Maleno has managed to distill a mash of Michel Houellebecq (who figures as a character here), Roberto Bolaño (The Endless Rose takes its title from a fictional novel mentioned in the Chilean¿s posthumous masterpiece), and Enrique Vila-Matas (whose technique of textured allusion Maleno has mastered) into a strange brew that is all his own.

The Irish Sea meditation on the paradox of nostalgia, which always seems to pine for what never was. A fevered search for order through writing, of truth through literature, of the nodal point where life and literature intersect. A strange personal gallery curated by a razor-sharp reader and his other, unknown self.