Bienvenidos a Welcome
Laura Fernández’s first novel, revised by the author on the 10th anniversary of its original publication.
Bienvenidos a Welcome, a world of the future, full of shopping malls, residential neighbourhoods and big stars, where life goes on like on a television set. But reality -a shocking reality indeed- is about to burst in on this happy world. An unidentified flying object has just hit one of the city’s shopping malls and thousands are estimated to be dead.
The major local media are racing to cover the story: is it a publicity campaign, is a new sitcom being filmed, is the mayor facing a revolt, is it the return of the legendary missing writer Rondy Rondy, is it true that Pedro Juan, the fashionable actor, is dead, and if so, who will put an end to it? And if so, who will put an end to the string of suicides of his desolate fans? Is it really a UFO piloted by a hairy alien?
Whatever the case, you’re about to find out. Along the way, you’ll meet the intrepid Lu Ken, Claudio Arden, the dwarf mayor, Sarah Du, the sole survivor, the great diva Anita Velasco and wannabe Welcomitzer Clark Roth, among many other celebrities. You’ve come at a good time, because after all this, Welcome will never be the same.
PRESS
«Bienvenidos a Welcome creates a world that exists within one or two or three or more ‘fake news’ stories, which makes this novel visionary and, more importantly, hilarious.» Ramón Vendrell, El Periódico
«Exuberant, boundless, unpredictable as a panic attack.» Kiko Amat
«It’s a world of pop culture, comics, and TV shows; a world of plastic and vinyl, of cellophane and trading cards. And the charm is transforming all of that into the best element for deconstructing and critiquing an era, the one we live in, where making it to the end of the month is a miracle.» Víctor Fernández, La Razón
«In the register of an unhinged panoramic farce, Fernández humorously crafts a novelesque double, a hysterical city subjected to the worst of media nightmares.» Sergio Vila-Sanjuán, Culturas
«Absurd humor in the style of Richard Brautigan or Kurt Vonnegut, not to be missed.» Matías Néspolo, El Mundo
«You’ll never read anything else like this. Ever. I promise.» Natalia Calvo, Fantasymundo
