El último libro

It is absurd to think of what book to take to a desert island; the important thing is to know what we would read before we die ", begins Ismael, a librarian at the Virgen del Perpetuo Socorro hospital, convinced that reading can be a more effective antidote against illness and death than many medical treatments. When they enter Klaus Carrasco, a successful businessman suffering from a strange evil, an intense relationship is established between the two men, personal and literary, during which the boundaries between their respective lives and reality and fiction will blur. . From communist Albania to the Mauthausen concentration camp, from colonial Algeria to the Parisian ghettos, from The Egyptian Book of the Dead to Borges, Chekhov, Kafka or Monterroso, The Last Book, both a mystery novel and a philosophical novel, composes a fascinating whirlwind of stories, a sort of Thousand and One Nights of the hospital that explores the ability of literature to give meaning to our lives and offer us a form of salvation.