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El tigre

Borja Vilallonga

*An Adventure of the Spirit under the Yoke of Modernity—The Literary Debut of Borja Vilallonga***

The comfort of family wealth has provided Hadrian a world of certainties and a predetermined future. But Hadrian wants more and searches. This quest is transformed after his father’s suicide, which destroys his family and the world of certainties. As a result, Hadrian embarks on a journey full of adventures of the Spirit. Yet, trauma has also brought forth the ghosts of mental health. Our protagonist breaks from society and flees the tyranny of materialism, capitalism, hedonism, and lastly, the empty and absurd nihilism of our time. Ultimately, Hadrian has to face the tiger of the modern world and decide whether he risks riding it.

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Makineros

Kuki

A Coming-of-Age Story at the Speed of Makina Music —The Most Thuggish Novel Ever Written in Catalan

At 18, Jordi Prunell still doesn’t know what real life is. The son of an upper class Opus Dei family from deep Girona, Jordi yearns to explore the margins of Catalan society in the late nineties. In this quest, a furtive escapade to the Xque? club allows him to discover what it means to live at the speed of the Makina music of DJs Pastis & Buenri. On the dance floor, Jordi dies and Kuki is born. Together with his party friends Kai and Kim, Kuki begins a life transformation defined by drugs, fights, music, friendship, and the first love with Kuka. Written in street slang and the Girona dialect, Makineros is a literary exercise in style that glorifies the most genuine Catalan rauxa in the coming-of-age representative of the Makina generation.

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