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Jesús Ferrero: THE ABYSMAL ONES

Novel, SIRUELA (January 2019)

2018 Café Gijón Novel Prize

David, a professor and mythology expert, is the voice of this novel where fear is the literary engine. His girlfriend’s death will be the first in a series of strange, apparently unrelated events occurring in different places around Madrid. As the chaotic situation becomes uncontrollable, a feeling of unease takes hold of the city like an apocalyptic epidemic. Furious, disconcerted masses enter into conflict with each other, and manipulators, demagogues and prophets appear and act as a dramatic chorus in a story full of passions and conflicting realities. Evil doesn’t follow familiar patterns, and appears as an intractable, destabilising force. At the same time, a more familiar form of evil linked to crime appears in the city, leaving the characters with the same feeling of uncertainty and dread as the experience of the unknown. What’s more terrifying, the fear of the known or the unknown? The two forms of fear are intermingled throughout this fast-paced, agile tale, full of surprises to the very end.

“The voice of Jesús Ferrero stands out for its purity, the strength of its imagination, the softness and richness of its tones, and its subtle and refined style.” Jorge Semprún