Belén Gopegui

Something happened to Martina on the 4^th of December. Since then, she’s been seeking fury, attitude or anything else to stay true to her code. She’s sixteen and has nowhere to belong, but finds the beginnings of a story in rock & roll while Alice Cooper watches from the rooftops, when punk is a state of mind, and hurting oneself doesn’t mean admitting the people responsible for all this are right. Quite the contrary: it proves there are people who aren’t afraid to lose something in order to live.

“Belén Gopegui returns to fiction with a generational novel, Deseo de ser punk. And she does so by appealing to that evocative magnitude usually found in the best rock lyrics and melodies.” J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El País

“Outstanding psychological portrait of an adolescent girl, for which I find no comparison in our fiction of the past few decades.” Ricardo Senabre, El Mundo

“The touching story of Martina, a cocktail of The Catcher in the Rye and punk, results in a realistic, well-accomplished novel, committed to a sacrificed generation.” Livres d’Hebdo

“In this coming-of-age novel, written in the form of a musical journey, Belén Gopegui draws a bittersweet portrait of a generation devoid of points of reference, with no hope of a bright future.” Transfuge