Caminaré entre las ratas

The unexpected death of a childhood friend surprises Domingo at a vital crossroads. About to turn forty years old, the protagonist of this novel is a telemarketer who tries to become an economics professor, takes refuge in Internet sex and fights against the frustration of being a writer without readers or interlocutors. During the last weeks of the year, he will have to face various disagreements, while wandering, increasingly anguished, through a disturbing Madrid, haunted by the ghostly presence of a far-right party, by the shadow of the economic crisis and by a growing plague of giant rats that don't seem to worry anyone. In Caminaré entre las ratas, the everyday and the anecdotal immerse the reader in an atmosphere of costumbrista rarity. Between realism, mild expressionism and social criticism, the new novel by David Pérez Vega reveals an innovative and original voice that, like all good novels, turns into a mirror at the end of the game that returns to the reader an always disturbing image : his own.