The 3 best books by Jorge Carrión

Going against the current is, on many occasions, a noble declaration of intentions, the launching of David's sling against a four-layer galvanized mechanism, inaccessible to any damage from criticism. And yet, it is necessary to maintain spirits so bear witness to the lost conscience. For when an awakening can occur that, in the light of the crisis that we have above, can always be closer than we think.

Jorge Carrion It is that loose verse that cries out against the dangerous inertia of globalization in his role as a non-fiction writer, as a chronicler of his days or as a persistent traveler. But also in his bibliography we find a novelistic vein that in many cases tackling the science fiction or the sociological towards the dystopian, so here you have a reader won for the cause, especially with his The Footprints Trilogy.

Between some literary fortunes and others, Carrión is already a benchmark of the most committed, lucid and creative and entertaining literature in Spanish. You can not lose this.

Top 3 recommended books by Jorge Carrión

The orphans

We started the Las Huellas trilogy with the second part. It will be because the thing is taking greater flights, without detracting from presentations and others that usually happen at the beginning of the stories. On this occasion the plot inevitably hypnotizes us from page 1.

A group of survivors of the Third World War, from different parts of the planet, have been isolated in a bunker in Beijing for thirteen years. His stories are told to us by Marcelo – an unreliable narrator obsessed with memorizing the dictionary – starting from the day the crazy and dangerous Anthony escapes from his cell and threatens the harmony of the community. The miseries, betrayals and discoveries, in this post-apocalyptic environment, will alternate with reports that tell how the phenomenon of historical reanimation led to the collapse of humanity.

The orphans it is a deeply humanistic science fiction tale. An astonishing investigation into the dangers of historical memory as a political instrument. And a commitment to literature understood as ambition.

The orphans

Tourists

A perfect epilogue for a trilogy loaded with that kind existentialism that every fantastic approach offers the good storyteller. A thousand morals and diversity of learning about what our world aims to remain, after our singular passage from that noisy cosmic second of glory that has belonged to us.

The Langoliers of Stephen King they were in charge of erasing the world under the feet of some travelers on a commercial flight. And it is that there is so much strange in the trips undertaken from the airports ...

Vincent has spent ten years spending his days at Heathrow Airport, where he studies people and tries to guess their lives. One day everything changes. A very mysterious old woman passes before him, who does not allow himself to be interpreted. Without knowing why he begins to chase her through tourist destinations around the world, from Amsterdam to Havana, from Barcelona to South Africa. His insane pursuit will allow him to face the duel and meet all kinds of characters, from the young George Bush to the tortured Andrea, passing through the sensual Catia or Harrison Ford himself.

Set in the midst of the change from the XNUMXth century to the XNUMXst century, Tourists is a powerful novel about travelers seeking their identity and how fiction doesn't save us, but it relieves us.

Tourists

The viral

One of Carrión's last books with that fascinating point between open meditation and rehearsal. An invitation to consider what our civilization points to from the anecdotal, the fleeting and the feeling that everything in the background is viral, from the Covid to our existence ...

Did the 2st century begin with the fall of the Twin Towers in New York or with the entry of a virus into the body of a man in Wuhan? Is SARS-CoV-XNUMX the first cyborg pathogen? Are Netflix, Zoom or Amazon pandemic multinationals? How can the transformation of science fiction into everyday reality be represented? The viral is, at the same time, a historical reconstruction of the first months of the coronavirus, a fragmentary essay on digital virality, the memory of a quarantined library, an experiment in cultural criticism and a false but sincere diary.

The viral
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