Juan Jacinto Muñoz-Rengel

We live in a liquid, complex, and volatile world where anything can happen, and our identities slip further and further beyond our control. But what if souls also started migrating from one body to another? If we suddenly found ourselves in an unfamiliar body, would we try to return home—perhaps miles away, where no one would recognize us? Or would we search for that other home that the set of keys in our coat pocket unlocks? Who would be waiting for us inside?

The abyss is only beginning to take shape. Because when you are stripped of your body, you don’t just lose your identity—you lose your life. You are torn away from your loved ones and everything that matters. Where are your children? Who are the lost children wandering the streets? Are they really children at all?

Everything changes so fast that the reality we know could vanish at any moment. With precise and immersive prose, Juan Jacinto Muñoz-Rengel plunges us into his most ambitious work yet—a choral novel spanning countries across the globe to tell the story of the world’s collapse. Cities will fall, one after another, and the protagonists will be forced to test their convictions and the limits of their morality. But even before the transformation, evil was already roaming free.

An unprecedented novel about identity and gender, about the body and our dependence on it, about human connection, illness, and fragility. So real that it feels on the verge of happening.

“Brilliant, disturbing, profound, with an unstoppable rhythm. We are bodies, and this novel painfully puts it in evidence. A tremendously human novel.” Sara Mesa

“A hell of a novel.” Laura Barrachina

“An unprecedented collapse in the history of dystopian fiction.” Jorge Carrión

“If our attention hadn’t been stolen, everyone would be talking about this book—and it would be sweeping every prize.” Fallo de Sistema, Radio 3

“The Transmigration was born to blow up all our schemes.” El Asombrario, Público

“You won’t read anything better this year. Or the next.” Elia Barceló

“Juan Jacinto Muñoz-Rengel always circling the extraordinary, where the nature of things is pushed to the limit.” Antonio Martínez Asensio, Cadena SER

“A marvellous and terrifying novel about the eternal duality between mind and body, devoured with the pleasure of a thriller. An honest exercise in true literature.” Miguel Garrido, Zenda

“A rara avis in today’s publishing scene, starting from a fantastic premise to explore the deepest mechanisms of our lived reality.” Lorenzo Silva, Vocento

“One of the leading voices of the genre in Spain. The Transmigration gives the concept of identity a whole new meaning.” Alejandro Luque, El Diario.es

“Muñoz-Rengel has long been immersed in a unique literary adventure: to explore the depths of our existence through the fantastic.” La Opinión

“One of the most interesting voices in contemporary European fiction. The Transmigration is the most ambitious work of his career.” Alberto Gómez, Diario Sur

“Many pages of unsettling pleasure.” El Norte de Castilla