El gran viaje

At the beginning of the 21st century, a man obsessed with invisibility takes the same boat trip that his grandparents did in the middle of the last century on their honeymoon. In Patagonia they met a singular woman, Graciela Pavic, whose mysterious story contains a painful secret. But the origin of its history goes back to the great adventure of another trip, no less mysterious, in the sixteenth century and destined to fulfill a secret plan of Felipe II in that territory. Narrated as a modern Arabian Nights, this novel covers a journey of five hundred years. In it, the trips that are chained are, in reality, a single and 'great trip' to another place and another time. And also towards the fable. Fear, chance, the encounter with destiny, the disturbing ingredients of the unknown, appear in this novel heir to the best style of Conrad, Stevenson or Umberto Eco, where a narrative twist leads the reader to the wonderful end of this extraordinary book. The Great Journey, a novel that interrelates in the same adventure the stories arising from the storytelling of its protagonist, a compulsive storyteller, had a previous and different version in 2006 under the title of Automata. This renewed version is another step in the career of Adolfo García Ortega, one of the most highly valued writers on the current literary scene.