Juan Jacinto Muñoz-Rengel

What if you wake up trapped in someone else's body?

Things couldn't get any worse for Andrea: she is stressed out by her job out to the point of extenuation, and her ex-husband, an abusive idiot, has robbed her of the custody of the person who matters most to her: her son. But when Andrea wakes up in the body of an old man who doesn't have much longer to live, and with no one to believe her, she realises the world has gone completely crazy.

 An epidemic is causing people’s minds, or consciousnesses, or whatever our identities really are, to transmigrate to different bodies around the world. For example, Andrea's body is now occupied by a dangerous child molester. And the sick old man has now been revitalized in the strong healthy body of a rural butcher, with a second youth ahead of him. And then there's Marta, whose dreams of becoming an online celebrity are dashed when she wakes up in the body of a man from Tokyo, unable to understand a single word of Japanese.

 We witness a race against time through the eyes of four characters and the bodies they have unwittingly usurped, a struggle to restore order and survive in a world where everyone is ceasing to be who they were.

 Along the lines of Tom Perrotta's The Leftovers or Hervé Le Tellier's The Anomaly, La transmigración is not only a great story but also a pointed reflection on identity and its pitfalls in a world where no-one can be sure who is who.

“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