Few authors in the world do the job of writing a magical space as they get it JJ Benitez. A place inhabited by writer and readers where reality and fiction share accessible rooms with the keys to each new book.
Between the magic and the marketing, between the puzzling and the fascinating. All always thanks to a virtuous ability to narrate on the edge of the impossible, holding their narratives with firm bases of realism to end up unleashing them as if there were no gravity that could hold the facts to our daily space.
On this occasion we seem to meet again the journalist of the Trojan Horses, about to introduce ourselves fully into the mechanism that makes the world go round. From his days of confinement on a ship, Benitez has enshrined the modern curse of the pandemic with causes more prosaic than some ill-fated designs marked by any divinity. The whole of the work works as a kind of hook with his previous book about the Gog that haunts us for very close dates ...
Hours before leaving for his second round the world tour, JJ Benítez receives a letter from the US The letter is open, but not read. Juanjo embarks on the Costa Deliziosa and, in full navigation, the coronavirus pandemic arises. What was presented as a pleasure trip turns into chaos. The writer keeps a logbook in which he records the incidents of each day.
First appear the characters, the unique stories of people of more than 10 nationalities of the world united by the desire to have fun and live life. Little by little the emotional themes and the fear of contagion that set off all the alarms are coming to the story. In the background, the investigation and the questions that a person of Benítez's brilliance always raises.
The great yellow catastrophe it's a dizzying mix of adventure, conversation, fear, and hope. Upon returning to Spain, Benítez reads the letter from California and is stunned. Nothing is what it seems. The end of the book is heart-stopping.
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