Los escorpiones
The young novelist Sara Barquinero—praised by Carlos Zanón, Nuria Labari, Andrés Barba, Elvira Navarro, Elizabeth Duval, and Luna Miguel— establishes herself as a major literary force with an astonishing work of fiction.
Los escorpiones is a novel of novels: a titanic and mysterious narrative piece. The protagonists, Sara and Thomas, become wrapped up in a conspiracy theory driven by political and economic forces that aim to exert control through hypnosis and subliminal messaging in books, video games, and music in order to induce suicide. Both characters navigate emotional turmoil as an indescribable and powerful bond begins to form between them, and they ultimately choose to investigate this cult, which shares a name with one of the few animal species that would rather kill itself than endure pain.
PRESS
«The most ambitious Spanish novel in years. Barquinero’s anhedonia and escapism belong alongside the greatest moments in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest or the novels of Don DeLillo, with echoes of Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and Ottessa Moshfegh, Mariana Enríquez, and Michel Houellebecq.» Elizabeth Duval
«Los Escorpiones is, in short, a masterful and monumental hyper-novel that has to become a phenomenon: it has everything to do so, but, above and beyond the magnetic plot, so successful, what convinces is its extraordinary literary greatness.»
Juan Marqués, La Lectura/El Mundo
«Barquinero has written a colossal novel.» William González Guevara, ABC Cultural
«The promising expectations are amply confirmed with this ambitious novel in the line of the well assimilated influence of Foster Wallace, Roberto Bolaño or Michel Houellebecq.» Jesús Ferrer, La Razón (Book of the week)
«A reading experience that obsesses, unsettles and drags the reader to the end.» Pepa Blanes, Cadena Ser (Radio)
