A hundred nights

BOOK REVIEW

A HUNDRED NIGHTS

Author: Luisgé Martin From the reader report by: James Lyons

The backbone of the entire narration is Irene’s life. There are several ancillary plotlines that include her friend Adela and Claudio’s family but all are directly related to Irene with the exception of the private investigators’ files. The well-written, believable dialogue is woven into the story in a seamless manner.

The story is a blend of noir, crime and erotic literature. The concepts of love and sex being often unlinked in Cien Noches was also expressed extensively in Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

The subject matter is totally engaging and quite unpredictable. The skillfully written sexual content is not in any way gratuitous but is essential and intriguing. The revelation that the mother orchestrated the murder of her son takes the reader completely by surprise.

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Title A HUNDRED NIGHTS CIEN NOCHES

Author Luisgé Martin Genre Literature Pages 264

ISBN 978-84-33999-10-8 Year of publication 2020 Number of editions 3 Language Spanish Spanish retail price 17.95 €

Author’s biography: Luisgé Martín (Madrid,1962) studied Hispanic philology at Madrid Complutense University and completed an MBA at IE Business School. He won the Ramón Gómez de la Serna prize for narrative, the Antonio Machado and the Vargas Llosa short story awards, the Llanes de Viajes award, and the 2020 Herralde award. Anagrama has published his novels The Shadow Woman, universally recognised as a masterpiece, The Same City, The Mistaken Life, the autobiography Love Backwards, and the essay The Brave New World. www.dospassos.es

Synopsis: Half of all human beings admit to being unfaithful to their partner. But is the other half telling the truth? There’s only one way to find out: spy on them with detectives or through digital media. And this is the anthropological experiment that A Hundred Nights proposes: an investigation of six thousand people without their consent in order to finally gather reliable statistics on the sexual behaviour of our societies. Irene, the main character, looks for the secrets of the human soul in sexuality. A Hundred Nights is a novel of exploration into our feelings, of study into eroticism, and of the police pursuit of a murderer who has left no trace of his crime. A Hundred Nights delves into the different ways we love, through loyalty, infidelity, unadmittable desires, the half-truths and deceits that swathe our relationships.

Publisher who has published: Anagrama

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Countries where the rights have been sold: Italy (Feltrinelli)

Prizes and reviews: 2020 Herralde award, Criticas in ABC Cultural, EL Cultural, EL MUNDO (and many more) and blurbs by Gonzalo Pontón Gijón, Marta Sanz, Juan Pablo Villalobos...