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.
Makineros | by Kuki | Scratchwords | 246 pp. | 16.95€ | ISBN: 979-8-218-92462-1