The Disgusting Ones

Santiago Lorenzo built a novel about voluntary disconnection that is at once comedy and manifesto. Manuel flees the city, the noise and other people, and in the process discovers he needs almost nothing. It has the humour of the best Fernández Mallo mixed with an unexpected tenderness. The prose, strange and personal, may disorient at first but that is part of the pleasure. For anyone who has ever fantasised about leaving everything behind: this book understands that fantasy better than any other.