A cockroach turns a washed up fortysomething into a modern Achilles. A young loser learns in a self-help book the secret to turn into the powerful woman she didn’t know she could be...

Daily life, in all its vulgarity and complexity, conceals moments of rare beauty and unexpected adventures that Nicolás Casariego rescues to create a playful and tragic world, passionate and surprising, from which it is difficult to escape.

With a precise writing style full of discoveries and an exceptional talent for glimpsing the essential elements from the sidelines – these twenty stories are a new and brilliant exploration of today’s world.