Un lugar en el mapa

"When you are in certain towns, the rest of the world disappears, hence it is logical that, for the rest of the world, some towns also disappear or are a fantasy, a ghost town or a purely decorative point on a map." This novel revolves around one of those anonymous places and an unnamed writer who has just moved there to finish a book about populations that have lost their reason for being and disappear until they are forgotten. Its inhabitants wander through an existence that seems to lead them nowhere: the bus driver who drives a route that nobody uses, the girl from the local radio who works on a program that nobody listens to, or the man who walks through the supermarket. all day. The extravagant routine of the locals is disrupted on the day that mysterious holes appear threatening the survival of the town. Shaun Prescott has written a disturbing, labyrinthine, slippery and funny first novel that reflects, with melancholic irony, on the uneasiness and indifference of a society in decline, which turns its back on its history and has lost hope in the future.