Mirror City - Conrad, Jay
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Sombrayagua, a Spanish megalopolis, autumn of the year 2022...Book trader Diego Moranetti receives an unexpected letter from Nuria Santos Malaboca, Sombrayagua's Water Archaeologist. Nuria opens by returning to her sex-driven, pot-head adventures in the late 1970s, when the Regent, the seemingly immortal dictator, has died at last. Amidst the nation-wide euphoria, Nuria's sardonic father, Raúl, a socialist army colonel during the Civil War, retires to his native Monegros Desert, leaving his barely qualified mod-punk daughter in charge of the family business, 'Santos Sunshades & Umbrellas'.…mehr

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Sombrayagua, a Spanish megalopolis, autumn of the year 2022...Book trader Diego Moranetti receives an unexpected letter from Nuria Santos Malaboca, Sombrayagua's Water Archaeologist. Nuria opens by returning to her sex-driven, pot-head adventures in the late 1970s, when the Regent, the seemingly immortal dictator, has died at last. Amidst the nation-wide euphoria, Nuria's sardonic father, Raúl, a socialist army colonel during the Civil War, retires to his native Monegros Desert, leaving his barely qualified mod-punk daughter in charge of the family business, 'Santos Sunshades & Umbrellas'. Following Raúl's accidental death in an olive grove, Purificación, his bohemian, proudly alcoholic widow, and Ignacio 'Pencil-sharpener' Sacapuntas, his mutilated accountant, reveal to Nuria the origins of her 'damned bourgeois' enterprise, embarking her on a terrifying time travel adventure through the Civil War. Meanwhile, Nuria discovers a connection between past and present in Sombrayagua's subterranean 'Voyages of Water', begun by the Arabs in the early Middle Ages... 'A wicked vision of a tormented country. An utterly Spanish work of contrasts. Delightful reading, unforgettable characters, unbelievable situations. As a Spaniard, I found great pleasure in reading this quite unromantic rendering of a nation's hopes and despair.' POLLUX HERNUñEZ (Spain), author of, among others, Monstruos, duendes y seres fantásticos de la mitología cántabra. 'Employing the stratagems of sci-fi fantasy, Aesopian fable, magic realism, docufiction, and one or two genres yet to be charted, Jay Conrad, a Hollander who writes full-throttle in English, has crafted a parable of modern Spain that is prodigious in its scope, imagination and exuberance.' TIM STEFFA (United Sates), author of Finnish Trench Art
Autorenporträt
Jay Conrad (b. Netherlands, 1955) has worked in London, the former West Berlin, Barcelona and Amsterdam as bartender, pizza cook, night watchman, musician and book trader. He described his experiences in the short story section of NRC Handelsblad, the daily newspaper published in Rotterdam. Nowadays, Conrad, a singer-songwriter and self-taught Hispanist, lives in Brussels. Mirror City is his first novel. As a singer-songwriter, Conrad released two albums (A Penniless Gentleman and Steeltown Girls), to be followed, in early 2019, by Carrizo Springs (in Spanish, with lyrics of the poetess Raquel Lanseros) and The North London Line (autumn, 2019). The Right Panel of the Sombrayagua Diptych - The Lens of Ibn Sahl is being written.