Manuel Vilas

Boundless imagination, playfulness, sarcasm, and humor in a novel that blends genres, characters, and eras.

Aire Nuestro is a novel—and also the best network on the new independent Spanish television. Across its eleven channels, you’ll find everything from documentaries, interviews from the future, and talk shows, to adult films and home shopping.

Allen Ginsberg and José Lezama Lima holding hands through Purgatory; Johnny Cash driving across Spain in a red Dodge; Sergio Leone firing from the Afterlife at the directors and actors who scorned his spaghetti westerns... Lou Reed, Elvis Presley, Luis Cernuda, and even Vilas himself also parade through this hyperrealist television.

A unique universe brimming with surprising stories, humor, and characters who meet and part within that extraordinary dimension literature reaches only when it destroys form—and its own boundaries. A shape-shifting fiction in which the reader witnesses the narrative consolidation of a daring and original author: Manuel Vilas.

“An anti-realist style that plays with narrative structures and the mutation of identity.” Jon Kortázar, Babelia

“Manuel Vilas astonishes with a renewed critical vision of Spanish society.” J. A. Masoliver Ródenas, La Vanguardia

“Vilas offers a fantastic challenge: to experience reading as something exciting and fun.” Flavia Company, El Periódico de Catalunya

“In Vilas’s mutant country, pop culture and academic erudition become picturesque bedfellows, both by name and by nature.” Sergi Doria, ABC

“Vilas’s voice is, at every moment, disconcerting and unique.” Vicente Luis Mora, Quimera

“In short, Manuel Vilas delivers a work that stands at the very antipodes of boredom or indifference.” Javier Moreno, Deriva