El hotel de los corazones rotos
El hotel de los corazones rotos is a delirious and moving coming-of-age story that explores the darkest corners of oneself—places that often reveal more about who we are than the façade of normalcy we present to the outside world.
Mexico City, early 1999. At twenty-one, Bruno Bolado has yet to finish high school and spends his days in an alcohol-soaked nothingness, daydreaming about writing a radio soap opera titled The Hotel of Broken Hearts. Until one day he stumbles upon what appears to be an Elvis Presley mascot dangling from a city bus and decides to follow it, unaware of the dark underworld he is about to discover. Guided by a man called El Agallas, Bruno becomes entangled in a web of delirium, paranoia, and revenge—a maze from which he will neither know how he entered nor where the exit lies.
Soon after, his world is turned upside down once more when he falls in love with Milena, an enigmatic English Literature student at UNAM who is writing her thesis on Sylvia Plath. When a student strike erupts, their parallel lives drift further apart: while Milena fights for public, free education, Bruno cannot bring himself to reveal his secret identity, nor his work helping friends aboard a fake ambulance that roams the city searching for the injured to take to the hospital.
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«A perfectly crafted novel, full of memorable characters […] with a pace I hadn’t experienced in a long time.»
Juan Bonilla, National Book Awarded author
«A novel endowed with an incisive and lucid vision that illuminates a narrative universe both dystopian and painfully real, yet unable to resist the powerful transformations of love.» Claudina Domingo, author of Dominio
