Los que escuchan

Diego Sánchez-Aguilar

‎Candaya SL (2023)
Language: Spanish

There are heads of government in curious attitudes. There is a child counting steps. There is a luxury housing estate. There is an old woman who she seems. There is a Summit of the Future (spoiler: it goes wrong). There is a punk T-shirt. There is a girl who appears in magazines. There is an alarm company. There is a strange murmur. There is a video game that predicts the future. There are people who run and people who walk. There are environmental activists. There is a cliff and a temple. There is a writer locked in a bathroom. There is a clandestine radio station. There is a countdown. There are people who sleep and people who are insomniac. There is a blind soldier who saw a war. There is a philosopher who lost his mind. There is a bomb. There is a sound mirror. There are people who listen. There is a funeral for the planet. There is no future.

The closing ceremony of the Summit of the Future has an unexpected ending that places the G7 presidents in an uncomfortable position. While his advisors try to find out who caused the problem and how to fix it, scenes from the lives of characters united by one fact are interspersed: they all hear a strange noise whose origin they cannot determine. This sound causes secondary effects in them that will make them rethink their lives and their ethical convictions in a world that seems to be crumbling at times. When the future is perceived as a territory populated by ghosts, Diego Sánchez Aguilar explores, in Los que escuchan, all kinds of anxiety and fear that define contemporary society. And it will be difficult to emerge unscathed from his relentless investigation.

544 pages / 21 cm x 14 cm

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8418504600

Diego Sánchez Aguilar ( Cartagena , 1974) has a PhD in Hispanic Philology and is a professor of Spanish Language and Literature.

He has published Nuevas teorías sobre el orgasmo femenino, which won the Setenil Prize for the best book of short stories published in Spain in 2016, and the novel Factbook. (The Book of Facts) (Candaya 2019). As a poet, he has published Diario de las bestias blancas (Donisia García International Poetry Prize, 2008), Las célebres órdenes de la noche (2016) and La cadena del frío (2020).