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31 Nights is a month of August that begins and ends in a vat of sulphuric acid in wait of a corpse to dissolve. It is a corrosive story, set deep down in the guts of a disco, the Premium Room, where a journalist finds himself dragged into a plot involving drugs, discoteque thugs and outstanding debts in the Madrid nightlife.
Could we turn on lightbulbs with our hands? Charge mobile phones just by touching them? Someone discovered how to do this over a century ago, someone truly exceptional. But his daring visions changed our systems only up to the point he was allowed to do so.
"35Muertos is a sprawling, fast-paced novel set in Colombia’s recent past and dealing with the country’s history of an epidemic of violence. I think anyone who enjoys García Márquez would like it.” (Rosalind Harvey)