A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustin Fernandez
Mallo's Nocilla Trilogy--Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Lab, and Nocilla
Experience--presents multiple narratives of people and places that
reflect America and the world in the digital age of the twenty-first
century.
In the middle of the Nevada desert stands a solitary poplar tree covered
in hundreds of pairs of shoes. Farther along Route 50, a lonely
prostitute falls in love with a collector of found photographs. In Las
Vegas, an Argentine man builds a peculiar monument to Jorge Luis Borges.
On the run from the authorities, Kenny takes up permanent residence in
the legal non-place of Singapore International Airport, while the
novelists Enrique Vila-Matas and Agustín Fernández Mallo encounter each
other on an oil rig.
These are just a few of the narrative strands that make up Fernández
Mallo's Nocilla Trilogy--Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Experience, and
Nocilla Lab. Greeted as a landmark in contemporary Spanish literature,
the entire trilogy has not been available in English until now.
"By juxtaposing fiction with non-fiction . . . the author has created a
hybrid genre that mirrors our networked lives, allowing us to inhabit
its interstitial spaces. A physician as well as an artist, Fernández
Mallo can spot a mermaid's tail in a neutron monitor; estrange theorems
into pure poetry." --Andrew Gallix, The Independent
"An encyclopedia, a survey, a deranged anthropology: Nocilla Dream is
just the coldhearted poetics that might see America for what it really
is. There is something deeply strange and finally unknowable about this
book, in the very best way." --Ben Marcus, author of The Flame
Alphabet
