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Nueve desconocidos huyen en globo de unos bombardeos. Deben decidir quién de ellos se tiene que tirar al mar para que el resto pueda llegar sano y salvo a una isla desierta y comenzar una nueva civilización. Los viajeros del globo son los únicos supervivientes de una guerra mundial que ha hecho desaparecer el mundo tal y como lo conocemos. Lo que está en juego, en realidad, no es el futuro de la especie humana, sino un trabajo temporal como vendedor en unos grandes almacenes. «Así era la búsqueda de empleo en 2011», podría escribir Carlos, el narrador de esta novela, que desde un futuro incierto intenta rescatar, junto con otras voces cercanas y cómplices, el mundo en el que vivió y al que, «por motivos de sobra conocidos, ya no podemos volver». Desde ese enigmAtico exilio, el narrador rastrea, a través de memorias aparentemente anecdóticas, las oscuras corrientes subterráneas que transformaron la vida de todas aquellas personas que conocía, llevándolas tan lejos de allí.
Nine strangers flee bombings in a balloon. They must decide which of them has to jump into the sea so that the rest can reach a desert island safely and start a new civilization. The globe travelers are the only survivors of a world war that has destroyed the world as we know it. What is at stake, in reality, is not the future of the human species, but a temporary job as a salesman in a department store. "This is how the job search was in 2011," could write Carlos, the narrator of this novel, who from an uncertain future tries to rescue, along with other close and complicit voices, the world in which he lived and to which, "for reasons too well known, we can no longer return. From that enigmatic exile, the narrator traces, through apparently anecdotal memories, the dark undercurrents that transformed the lives of all those people he knew, taking them so far away.
Nine strangers flee bombings in a balloon. They must decide which of them has to jump into the sea so that the rest can reach a desert island safely and start a new civilization. The globe travelers are the only survivors of a world war that has destroyed the world as we know it. What is at stake, in reality, is not the future of the human species, but a temporary job as a salesman in a department store. "This is how the job search was in 2011," could write Carlos, the narrator of this novel, who from an uncertain future tries to rescue, along with other close and complicit voices, the world in which he lived and to which, "for reasons too well known, we can no longer return. From that enigmatic exile, the narrator traces, through apparently anecdotal memories, the dark undercurrents that transformed the lives of all those people he knew, taking them so far away.