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Sto caricando le informazioni... Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymoredi Ray Loriga
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. An unnamed man travels the globe selling a mind-wiping drug to people who need to forget unpleasant experiences. Cult Spanish author Loriga takes us on a journey filled with sex, drugs and rambling nihilism. Reads like Houellebecq, but without the sense of humour. ( )
Loriga deals in the classic Burroughs-ian tropes of the Company and the Agent, who is dangerously addicted to the substance he is selling, apparently to suppress the details of a long-lost love affair. Premi e riconoscimenti
This dreamlike dystopian novel "shines a dark spotlight on the modern allure of pharmaceuticals' seeming power to assuage all ills" (Booklist). Set in the very near future, this is the story of a traveling salesman floating from arid Arizona parking lots to steamy Bangkok bars and beyond to peddle the hottest new commodity for a group known only as The Company. What he has is a drug that erases memory. You can choose your oblivion, be it one mistake or a lifetime of pain. But things become hazy when our hero begins sampling the goods and reaches the point where he can't even remember what it is he cannot remember. A pitch-perfect piece for our times filled with hypnotic prose, Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore is both a riveting story and a thoughtful exploration of the drug culture that surrounds us, the nature of forgetfulness, and the implacable tyranny of emotions--questioning what it means to be human when everything, including human identity, can be bought. "Part crime novel, part political allegory, part love story . . . Compelling." --The New York Times Book Review Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)863.64Literature Spanish and Portuguese Spanish fiction 20th Century 1945-2000Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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