Algo ha pasado

Joseph Heller, overwhelmed by the expectation that Trap 22 had generated, his first novel, published in 1961, took thirteen years to write Something has happened. He trusted the story so much that he hid drafts all over Manhattan so the manuscript would be safe if his apartment ever caught fire. His paranoia was not in vain: decades after its publication, it continues to resonate as "the Great American Novel of the Family and the Office", as Rodrigo Fresán defines it in the extraordinary prologue of this new edition.