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Los guapos

The Handsome Ones | Anagrama, 2024

​Have we been visited by aliens? The answer might lie in this novel (or not).          

Mysterious circles begin to appear in the rice fields in front of a campsite in El Saler. It’s what fans of the occult and extraterrestrials call crop circles: large geometric shapes that appear from one day to the next in a planted field. Are there UFOs in the area? Or is the campsite owner looking for a tourist attraction?

Posing as a journalist, Adrián Sureda travels to the area, though in reality he isn’t a journalist and his appearance is due to different reasons. He begins to investigate with the locals: the campsite owner, the campsite cat, the campsite guard who hosts an esoteric mystery show on a local channel in her free time, an Italian who arrived in the 80s and runs a kiosk…And very strange, strange things begin to happen. Are we facing a Twin Peaks situation in the Albufera?

PRESS

«If Esther Gacía Llovet and the great Georges Simenon have something in common, it is that ability to easily create a unique world In a few pages, attractive and difficult to forget. (…), The novel reveals a landscape that has nothing to envy from David Lynch and other ‘odd ones’ in film and television.» Alfonso Vázquez, La Opinión

Los guapos

The Handsome Ones | Anagrama, 2024

​Have we been visited by aliens? The answer might lie in this novel (or not).          

Mysterious circles begin to appear in the rice fields in front of a campsite in El Saler. It’s what fans of the occult and extraterrestrials call crop circles: large geometric shapes that appear from one day to the next in a planted field. Are there UFOs in the area? Or is the campsite owner looking for a tourist attraction?

Posing as a journalist, Adrián Sureda travels to the area, though in reality he isn’t a journalist and his appearance is due to different reasons. He begins to investigate with the locals: the campsite owner, the campsite cat, the campsite guard who hosts an esoteric mystery show on a local channel in her free time, an Italian who arrived in the 80s and runs a kiosk…And very strange, strange things begin to happen. Are we facing a Twin Peaks situation in the Albufera?

PRESS

«If Esther Gacía Llovet and the great Georges Simenon have something in common, it is that ability to easily create a unique world In a few pages, attractive and difficult to forget. (…), The novel reveals a landscape that has nothing to envy from David Lynch and other ‘odd ones’ in film and television.» Alfonso Vázquez, La Opinión