O movimento da terra translação e rotação

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FICTION

Alberto Olmos –

EJERCITO ENEMIGO (ENEMY ARMY)

(Mondadori, Oct. 2011, 288

pp.)
NOVEL
Santiago, a young loner who lives in a run-down neighbourhood in a big city gets up every day at 9 to take the underground to the office where he works for an advertising company.
Occasional casual encounters and his incursions into the more erotic and intimate recesses of the internet scarcely change his daily routine. But everything changes after he utters the words
“solidarity has failed” to a certain person in a certain place, triggering a series of events that will alter the course of his life. He receives an envelope containing an email password sent to him by a not-very-close friend who died in mysterious circumstances…
A strong, vibrant plot and a protagonist with all the features that define the great characters of universal literature. Alberto Olmos presents us with a novel that raises a number of burning issues and controversial and sometimes uncomfortable questions. Social responsibility may be all the rage, but is it really anything more than the best advertising slogan of all time? Is privacy the last bastion of honesty? A novel that keeps the reader on edge to the very last page, one in which the author’s talent and mastery once again leaves us in awe.
A reflection on the vacuity of political discourse.
"An extraordinarily talented author, one who reinvents himself in each novel. I repeat, huge ambition and furious talent. A writer bound to go far ." (Nuria Azancot)
Segovia-born Alberto Olmos (1975) is one of six Spaniards on the Granta list of Best Young Spanish Language Novelists. He has written six novels. At age twenty-three he published his first novel, A bordo del naufragio (1998), which was a