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Overview
Moisés Froissard se dedica a salvar vidas. Trabaja de "cazador" para el Club Olimpo, una macroempresa con una intrincada red internacional que actúa en las zonas depauperadas del mundo, en los lugares donde se ha producido un desastre natural o una guerra, y en las costas cuando es apresado un nuevo contingente de pateras abarrotadas de inmigrantes. Él selecciona y rescata a los ejemplares más bellos de entre los supervivientes del infortunio y la inmigración, y el Club se encarga de someterlos a un laborioso proceso de reeducación y lavado de imagen para convertirlos en máquinas sexuales, capaces de satisfacer los deseos de clientes ricos y caprichosos. Audaz y corrosiva desde la idea inicial hasta su resolución, Los príncipes nubios sumerge al lector en un espectáculo sobrecogedor, una visión descarnada y cruel de cómo las formas de explotación se adaptan a los nuevos tiempos. Juan Bonilla regresa a la novela dosificando humor negro y acción en una historia de inquietante actualidad galardonada con el Premio Biblioteca Breve 2003.Editorials
Criticas
A prolific young Spanish author of short stories, essays, poetry, and novels (Nadie conoce a nadie [Nobody Knows Anybody], Suma de Letras, 2002), Bonilla also writes for Madrid's leading newspaper El Mundo. In this latest novel, winner of this year's prestigious Biblioteca Breve award, Moises, a former drama student living with his dysfunctional parents in Madrid, tells the story of his strange career. During a brief stint as a documentary photographer, Moises meets a "model hunter" and eventually becomes one himself. His job is to "rescue" the most physically beautiful among the world's most desperate and impoverished, which in Los principes nubios includes bankrupt Argentines, Albanian refugees, and Africans who risk their lives to cross the Straits of Gibraltar, and turn them into sex machines. Aware that he works for a highly lucrative prostitution agency, Moises tries to convince himself that he is ultimately saving lives. Bonilla draws eccentric characters precisely, for example, a boss who collects books with unopened pages on whom Moises takes revenge by slitting them open; and Moises's own dog, which attacks him at his estranged girlfriend's apartment. Despite the gritty subject matter, this is a clever, entertaining, and darkly comic novel. Bonilla writes in a fluent and assured style, and his many page-long sentences are easy to follow. A successful combination of moral ambiguity, contemporary issues, and humor, this award winner is highly recommended for Spanish-language literature collections in public and academic libraries, and for bookstores.—Lynn Shirey, Harvard Coll. Lib., Cambridge, MA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Book Details
Published
March 2, 2003
Publisher
Editorial Seix Barral
Pages
290
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9788432211508