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Los moradores de la noche
Ignacio Charrán es un joven periodista que se dispone a realizar una entrevista importante, visitando en el Congo a la doctora Wickedwhole, conocida zoóloga. Pero la científica se muestra reacia a realizar la entrevista y le prohíbe el acceso a una parte de su laboratorio. Por las noches, a la ventana de Ignacio se asoma un extraño ser al que apenas puede ver en la oscuridad. Dispuesto a averiguar lo que ocurre, la última noche de su estancia en la casa decide perseguirlo y entra en el laboratorio prohibido. A partir de ahí, no recuerda nada y repite una y otra vez esta exclamació ¡El horror! ¡El horror!
Cuando los amigos de Ignacio intentan aclarar lo que ha sucedido, la situación se complica porque la doctora Wickedwhole visita Londres con dos ataúdes en su equipaje.
Este libro fue finalista en 2013 del IV Premio El Templo de las Mil Puertas.
Cuando los amigos de Ignacio intentan aclarar lo que ha sucedido, la situación se complica porque la doctora Wickedwhole visita Londres con dos ataúdes en su equipaje.
Este libro fue finalista en 2013 del IV Premio El Templo de las Mil Puertas.
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113 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 1, 2012
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Manuel Alfonseca
80 books214 followersManuel Alfonseca (Madrid, 1946) is a writer and professor in a Spanish university (Autónoma de Madrid) where he was director of the Escuela Politécnica Superior (2001-2004). He worked 22 years in IBM. He has published over 200 scientific articles and many papers and posts on popular science, in Spanish and English. He is the author of over 50 books on computer science, popular science, historic novel, science-fiction and young adult literature, published in Spanish, English, French and other languages. He was awarded the Lazarillo Award (1988) and the La Brújula Award (2012). He is the son of the painter and sculptor Manuel Alfonseca (Santana).
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December 20, 2024
Ladies and gentlemen, this review begins, but I don't know if I will have time to finish it or when it will end. In spite of everything, in the end it will be concluded if not in this moribund year 2024, in the nascent 2025, which I hope will be happy for everyone, especially for Goodreads users who read this review. This was the birthday gift that the Professor gave me and, except for one character and, the final third I liked a lot so I think the final grade will not be a surprise for any Goodreads user who knows me. This will be for two reasons. 1° I think I should have given more marks to the last book that was read to Professor A Face in Time by Manuel Alfonsecaand, 2° This book was read after having read "Earthly Powers" by Anthony Burgessand, on the same day that I had a very personal non-football podcast with my Boss @tioalberto7 (take the opportunity to subscribe to his @tioalbertorealm channels and, @sinverguenzatv2.0) and, I did not feel like telling him that the last book I had read was the failed work of the English novelist. So this book was a balm. The user who wants to know more about the intrahistory of this book was read on the same day that one of the reviews that has given me the most satisfaction and has been happier to write was written. A humble servant is referring to "Melodías de acero" written by several very talented authors and, coordinated by my friend and countryman José Baena Castel and Rayco Cruz it is hoped that this book will soon be presented on the @youtube channel of my beloved Boss (Don Alberto Balayla in Sin Vergüenza 2.0). That's why I was so busy that day. I must confess a serious sin to the users of Goodreads and it is that every time a review is written I am grumpy and I cannot find peace until it is over, so I apologize to my relatives for my last lapses of bad mood.
Entering into the matter itself after this informative preamble. The interesting thing about this novel by Professor Manuel Alfonseca ]Manuel Alfonseca is its narrative structure. Like the wonderful film by Mel Gibson "The Last Man" is a story narrated by three different narrators following the model of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins , In a Grove by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and, a novel whose translation to the cinema the Professor liked very much, we refer specifically to Laura by Vera Caspary by Vera Caspary brought to the big screen by the great Austrian filmmaker Otto Preminger and, being played by Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney, which is also narrated by three different narrators. The first narrative is the work of a journalist who has something of the young Arturo Pérez-Reverte (to whom a greeting is sent) and, of the iconic Belgian journalist Tintin created by Hergé who, by the end of which one of his adventures also took place in the Congo, arousing the wrath of the desacralized puritans, iconoclasts of wokism (especially in Canada) since, ignoring the moment in which the work was written, they branded it as imperialist and, racist. It is hoped that after the events of November 5-6, the day of Guy Fawkes and St. Zachariah, many of the mistakes that were perpetrated after 9/11 will be resolved. In that for security reasons, they took advantage of it to curtail our rights and impose progressive ideology on us (wokism, as the brilliant youtuber says@elgranpatriarcaoficial is only a root of this demonic tree called progressivism, which is actually the fruit of Gnosticism).
He encouraged everyone, whether they are believers or not, to participate in an initiative of the Professor to which I am going to join, and that is to pray a rosary 📿 on December 8 for the end of wokism. People who do not profess any religion should meditate and wish us the best. Which leads us to the question: Fonch, are you racist? No, I am Spanish and a defender of Hispanism and I do not believe in racial theories and, yes, in miscegenation. Peoples are not the product of race but the work of creed, language and culture, as intellectuals such as Ramiro de Maeztu, Miguel de Unamuno or, Gregorio Marañón believed. I believe in miscegenation and meritocracy and not in quotas (something very shoehorny 🤮). I think that each person should count and surround themselves with the team they want only seeing the merits of the person and, not the color of the skin, if they are a man or a woman, their sexual condition or their creed. Universality, although desirable, cannot be imposed by force and must be allowed, as that Celtic prayer would say, "God give us wisdom to discern what is right from what is unjust, the will to choose it, and the strength to enforce it."
That said, you can continue with the criticism: a Spanish war correspondent named Ignacio Charran, who goes to the Congo to interview a zoologist named Joana Wickedwhole (I think the surname gives us a subtle clue about the personality of this fictional creature). The Professor's reflections are very interesting about the Congo. The Professor takes as inspiration for this first part of his novel the iconic novel " Heart of Darkness " by the Polish writer naturalized English Joseph Conrad (ay Polish football team how many troubles you give me ;-)). The Professor's reflections are truly brilliant and are a sad x-ray of what has happened in the second half of the twentieth century (remember that the work of Joseph Conrad was a bitter criticism of the colonial model of King Leopold II, converted by the work and, grace of Francis Ford Copolla into a harsh anti-war plea that has changed our perspective of the work of the Polish writer. I would have liked Copolla and, Oliver Stone to have criticized with equal enthusiasm the misdeeds of the Vietcong and the Khmer Rouge as if the Trotskyist Roland Joffe Roland Joffe had the gallantry to do in the wonderful "The Screams of Silence"). Taking advantage of the fact that Gladiator II is in theaters, I recommend a little gem by Joseph Conrad that my friend Soraya of the Tree of Letters 😘 gave me "The Duel: by Joseph Conrad" that inspired Scott's wonderful film The Duelists. By the way, do not hesitate to go to the best bookstore in Valladolid on Juan Mambrilla Street and buy some of their wonderful books 📚 😉.
Yo recuerdo la terrible situación del Congo ya que, la he estudiado. Recuerdo los chistes de dudoso gusto que se hacían sobre este país. Recuerdo la muerte de Dag Hamerskold secretario de la ONU, las luchas entre Kasabuvu, Chombe y, Lumumba en los 50-60. Lo que cuenta el Profesor de los diamantes (algún especialista ha pensado que el famoso país bíblico de Ofir famoso por sus riquezas era el Congo y, que allí tenía sus. El propio Henry Rider Haggard no puso la acción de su novela "KING SOLOMON'S MINES" en el Congo sino en Sudáfrica, pero podría haber sido el Congo). A parte de los cambios de nombre, los sucesos de Ruanda el Congo se han hecho famoso por la aparición de un mineral llamado el Coltán que sólo se produce allí y, que es necesario para la manufacturación de los dispositivos electrónicos que ahora empleamos como el móvil con el que se está escribiendo esta reseña. Rousseau se dijo que haciendo una alusión a Córcega profetizo a Napoleón y, yo tengo la sensación de que del Congo saldrá algo bueno y, más valioso que el Coltán el corazón me lo dice. Ojalá no me equivoqué en mi predicción. A parte de eso me ha gustado el bagaje profesional de Ignacio Charran en la Camboya pos Jemeres Rojos en Angkor Vet y, en China con el Microraptor Gui. Más adelante en la segunda parte de esta novela se dirá que es una tierra virgen y, que en esta región se han hallado especies como el Jabalí gigante y, otras especies. Una de las mejores películas de Doraemon "El reino perdido" el mítico reino del gran Guaguanco se encuentra en el Congo (Zaire en aquella época) en una región indetectable llamado El Bosque de los fumadores a la que según la película ni los satélites pueden llegar ahí. A parte de eso esta primera historia me ha recordado a la primera parte de Dracula. Tiene mucho de novela gótica. La Doctora Joanna Wickedwhole es odiada y, temida por los gobernadores como Kukuyu igual que los lugareños a dónde va Jonathan Harker temían a Drácula. El saludo previo entre la Doctora Wickedwhole e, Ignacio Charran a un encuentro mítico de dos exploradores que fue un hito histórico del imperialismo británico. Por supuesto a mí me ha parecido que la Doctora Wickedwhole tenía muchas influencias Kurtz, Drácula, Víctor Frankenstein Frankenstein: The 1818 Text y, deJane Goodall la famosa estudiosa de los primates. No es la primera vez que se muestra una visión siniestra de esta científica (que yo en Prehistoria conocí junto a los Leakey Louis Leakey y, aDian Fossey[(la autora de book:Gorillas in the Mist|30106217]) interpretada por Sigourney Weaver en el biopic homónimo). Los Simpsons esa iconoclasta y, brillante serie americana (hasta que decidieron lamerle el culo a los Obama y, se murió el primer doblador español de Homer Simpson) ya retrato a Jane Goodall en un personaje siniestro llamada la Doctora Buswell, cuyas investigaciones del estudio de los chimpancés era una tapadera para enriquecerse mediante la extracción de diamantes explotando a los pobres simios de forma más cruel que los humanos en la franquicia del Planet of the Apes de Pierre Boulle
(with Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowell). I already told the Professor in our correspondence in @goodreads that the bad thing about Jane Goodall is not that but his belief in the religion of environmentalism. Yours truly loves nature and, like Father Javier Alonso Sandoica in his time, prefers to call it environmental bioethics. Because a certain environmentalism has become a sect, it is no longer scientific at all and, we see that behind it there are no scientists but a caste of globalist and neo-Malthusian millionaires who have no idea about anything, but since they have money they use it to impose their points of view and try to convince us that the human being is a threat to the existence of the planet and, if it is not necessary to eliminate it, its number must be reduced, hence the promotion of certain measures that have the purpose of destroying the family, confronting men and women, and promoting abortion and, LGTBism for greed and the delusions of greedy, crazy and unscrupulous millionaires (something you already saw in Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton presenting him in the features of the millionaire Hammond, who is condemned by an Ian Malcolm who is an alter ego of the author and the voice of reason of the previously mentioned novel).
The Professor in a letter told me that this is a mistake that some biologists fall into who, in order to save their favorite species, advocate the elimination or reduction of humanity, but those who propose these deranged theories never volunteer (the latter is my own). We have seen this with the Gota Fría in Valencia, the same people who have caused the disaster by destroying dams and, not cleaning the riverbeds (particularly the reeds) causing the flood to increase, are the ones who tell you that nature must regulate itself, but they do not follow that with abortion or, experimentation with embryos, or embryonic cells and, I'm already anticipating the second act of this novel, the same ones who tell you that man and monkey share 99% of the genetic material, then they are the same ones who do not hesitate to deny the existence of a person through abortion and, research with embryos despite sharing with the embryos not 99% but 100% of the genetic material (the last one madness is what is happening in the United Kingdom where if you do not have money the most chronically ill will be euthanized. They will only allow you to live if you are rich. This is how the Labour Party cares for the poor).
After this digression I loved the first part for the gothic and terrifying part (to end my digression ended with a brilliant dissertation by my friend the Professor saying that things are neither black nor white. Doctor Wickedwhole reminds me a little bit of the villain Deshter from Neverwinter Nights I (a shout 👋 out to my friends from Eternam whom I love and appreciate) has a virtue that they are bad and they don't make an effort to disguise or deceive anyone by being as repulsive as they really are. It is also true that Dr. Wickedwhole has a motive for acting as she does. Mike and the pygmies give it a fairytale atmosphere that reminds me of the coloring of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Regarding the first part, it is related to the title since the character feels observed. Due to his curious nature, which is one of the characteristic features of his profession, he decides to investigate and, even more so when Dr. Wickedwhole puts so many obstacles in Ignacio's way and tells him which areas of her mansion he cannot access. I was close to discovering the truth. I thought of several hypotheses that Dr. Wickedwhole was a kind of Doctor Moureau The Island of Doctor Moreau (Dr. Moureau's iconic character) and, did illicit experiments on animals, or that she had found the missing link and wanted to hide it. Apart from his nods to H.G. Wells and the aforementioned Jules Verne he ends this first act in a very conradian way and, very much in the line of T.S. Eliot. Brilliantly the Professor leaves you wanting to know what will happen next.
Entering into the matter itself after this informative preamble. The interesting thing about this novel by Professor Manuel Alfonseca ]Manuel Alfonseca is its narrative structure. Like the wonderful film by Mel Gibson "The Last Man" is a story narrated by three different narrators following the model of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins , In a Grove by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and, a novel whose translation to the cinema the Professor liked very much, we refer specifically to Laura by Vera Caspary by Vera Caspary brought to the big screen by the great Austrian filmmaker Otto Preminger and, being played by Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney, which is also narrated by three different narrators. The first narrative is the work of a journalist who has something of the young Arturo Pérez-Reverte (to whom a greeting is sent) and, of the iconic Belgian journalist Tintin created by Hergé who, by the end of which one of his adventures also took place in the Congo, arousing the wrath of the desacralized puritans, iconoclasts of wokism (especially in Canada) since, ignoring the moment in which the work was written, they branded it as imperialist and, racist. It is hoped that after the events of November 5-6, the day of Guy Fawkes and St. Zachariah, many of the mistakes that were perpetrated after 9/11 will be resolved. In that for security reasons, they took advantage of it to curtail our rights and impose progressive ideology on us (wokism, as the brilliant youtuber says@elgranpatriarcaoficial is only a root of this demonic tree called progressivism, which is actually the fruit of Gnosticism).
He encouraged everyone, whether they are believers or not, to participate in an initiative of the Professor to which I am going to join, and that is to pray a rosary 📿 on December 8 for the end of wokism. People who do not profess any religion should meditate and wish us the best. Which leads us to the question: Fonch, are you racist? No, I am Spanish and a defender of Hispanism and I do not believe in racial theories and, yes, in miscegenation. Peoples are not the product of race but the work of creed, language and culture, as intellectuals such as Ramiro de Maeztu, Miguel de Unamuno or, Gregorio Marañón believed. I believe in miscegenation and meritocracy and not in quotas (something very shoehorny 🤮). I think that each person should count and surround themselves with the team they want only seeing the merits of the person and, not the color of the skin, if they are a man or a woman, their sexual condition or their creed. Universality, although desirable, cannot be imposed by force and must be allowed, as that Celtic prayer would say, "God give us wisdom to discern what is right from what is unjust, the will to choose it, and the strength to enforce it."
That said, you can continue with the criticism: a Spanish war correspondent named Ignacio Charran, who goes to the Congo to interview a zoologist named Joana Wickedwhole (I think the surname gives us a subtle clue about the personality of this fictional creature). The Professor's reflections are very interesting about the Congo. The Professor takes as inspiration for this first part of his novel the iconic novel " Heart of Darkness " by the Polish writer naturalized English Joseph Conrad (ay Polish football team how many troubles you give me ;-)). The Professor's reflections are truly brilliant and are a sad x-ray of what has happened in the second half of the twentieth century (remember that the work of Joseph Conrad was a bitter criticism of the colonial model of King Leopold II, converted by the work and, grace of Francis Ford Copolla into a harsh anti-war plea that has changed our perspective of the work of the Polish writer. I would have liked Copolla and, Oliver Stone to have criticized with equal enthusiasm the misdeeds of the Vietcong and the Khmer Rouge as if the Trotskyist Roland Joffe Roland Joffe had the gallantry to do in the wonderful "The Screams of Silence"). Taking advantage of the fact that Gladiator II is in theaters, I recommend a little gem by Joseph Conrad that my friend Soraya of the Tree of Letters 😘 gave me "The Duel: by Joseph Conrad" that inspired Scott's wonderful film The Duelists. By the way, do not hesitate to go to the best bookstore in Valladolid on Juan Mambrilla Street and buy some of their wonderful books 📚 😉.
Yo recuerdo la terrible situación del Congo ya que, la he estudiado. Recuerdo los chistes de dudoso gusto que se hacían sobre este país. Recuerdo la muerte de Dag Hamerskold secretario de la ONU, las luchas entre Kasabuvu, Chombe y, Lumumba en los 50-60. Lo que cuenta el Profesor de los diamantes (algún especialista ha pensado que el famoso país bíblico de Ofir famoso por sus riquezas era el Congo y, que allí tenía sus. El propio Henry Rider Haggard no puso la acción de su novela "KING SOLOMON'S MINES" en el Congo sino en Sudáfrica, pero podría haber sido el Congo). A parte de los cambios de nombre, los sucesos de Ruanda el Congo se han hecho famoso por la aparición de un mineral llamado el Coltán que sólo se produce allí y, que es necesario para la manufacturación de los dispositivos electrónicos que ahora empleamos como el móvil con el que se está escribiendo esta reseña. Rousseau se dijo que haciendo una alusión a Córcega profetizo a Napoleón y, yo tengo la sensación de que del Congo saldrá algo bueno y, más valioso que el Coltán el corazón me lo dice. Ojalá no me equivoqué en mi predicción. A parte de eso me ha gustado el bagaje profesional de Ignacio Charran en la Camboya pos Jemeres Rojos en Angkor Vet y, en China con el Microraptor Gui. Más adelante en la segunda parte de esta novela se dirá que es una tierra virgen y, que en esta región se han hallado especies como el Jabalí gigante y, otras especies. Una de las mejores películas de Doraemon "El reino perdido" el mítico reino del gran Guaguanco se encuentra en el Congo (Zaire en aquella época) en una región indetectable llamado El Bosque de los fumadores a la que según la película ni los satélites pueden llegar ahí. A parte de eso esta primera historia me ha recordado a la primera parte de Dracula. Tiene mucho de novela gótica. La Doctora Joanna Wickedwhole es odiada y, temida por los gobernadores como Kukuyu igual que los lugareños a dónde va Jonathan Harker temían a Drácula. El saludo previo entre la Doctora Wickedwhole e, Ignacio Charran a un encuentro mítico de dos exploradores que fue un hito histórico del imperialismo británico. Por supuesto a mí me ha parecido que la Doctora Wickedwhole tenía muchas influencias Kurtz, Drácula, Víctor Frankenstein Frankenstein: The 1818 Text y, deJane Goodall la famosa estudiosa de los primates. No es la primera vez que se muestra una visión siniestra de esta científica (que yo en Prehistoria conocí junto a los Leakey Louis Leakey y, aDian Fossey[(la autora de book:Gorillas in the Mist|30106217]) interpretada por Sigourney Weaver en el biopic homónimo). Los Simpsons esa iconoclasta y, brillante serie americana (hasta que decidieron lamerle el culo a los Obama y, se murió el primer doblador español de Homer Simpson) ya retrato a Jane Goodall en un personaje siniestro llamada la Doctora Buswell, cuyas investigaciones del estudio de los chimpancés era una tapadera para enriquecerse mediante la extracción de diamantes explotando a los pobres simios de forma más cruel que los humanos en la franquicia del Planet of the Apes de Pierre Boulle
(with Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowell). I already told the Professor in our correspondence in @goodreads that the bad thing about Jane Goodall is not that but his belief in the religion of environmentalism. Yours truly loves nature and, like Father Javier Alonso Sandoica in his time, prefers to call it environmental bioethics. Because a certain environmentalism has become a sect, it is no longer scientific at all and, we see that behind it there are no scientists but a caste of globalist and neo-Malthusian millionaires who have no idea about anything, but since they have money they use it to impose their points of view and try to convince us that the human being is a threat to the existence of the planet and, if it is not necessary to eliminate it, its number must be reduced, hence the promotion of certain measures that have the purpose of destroying the family, confronting men and women, and promoting abortion and, LGTBism for greed and the delusions of greedy, crazy and unscrupulous millionaires (something you already saw in Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton presenting him in the features of the millionaire Hammond, who is condemned by an Ian Malcolm who is an alter ego of the author and the voice of reason of the previously mentioned novel).
The Professor in a letter told me that this is a mistake that some biologists fall into who, in order to save their favorite species, advocate the elimination or reduction of humanity, but those who propose these deranged theories never volunteer (the latter is my own). We have seen this with the Gota Fría in Valencia, the same people who have caused the disaster by destroying dams and, not cleaning the riverbeds (particularly the reeds) causing the flood to increase, are the ones who tell you that nature must regulate itself, but they do not follow that with abortion or, experimentation with embryos, or embryonic cells and, I'm already anticipating the second act of this novel, the same ones who tell you that man and monkey share 99% of the genetic material, then they are the same ones who do not hesitate to deny the existence of a person through abortion and, research with embryos despite sharing with the embryos not 99% but 100% of the genetic material (the last one madness is what is happening in the United Kingdom where if you do not have money the most chronically ill will be euthanized. They will only allow you to live if you are rich. This is how the Labour Party cares for the poor).
After this digression I loved the first part for the gothic and terrifying part (to end my digression ended with a brilliant dissertation by my friend the Professor saying that things are neither black nor white. Doctor Wickedwhole reminds me a little bit of the villain Deshter from Neverwinter Nights I (a shout 👋 out to my friends from Eternam whom I love and appreciate) has a virtue that they are bad and they don't make an effort to disguise or deceive anyone by being as repulsive as they really are. It is also true that Dr. Wickedwhole has a motive for acting as she does. Mike and the pygmies give it a fairytale atmosphere that reminds me of the coloring of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Regarding the first part, it is related to the title since the character feels observed. Due to his curious nature, which is one of the characteristic features of his profession, he decides to investigate and, even more so when Dr. Wickedwhole puts so many obstacles in Ignacio's way and tells him which areas of her mansion he cannot access. I was close to discovering the truth. I thought of several hypotheses that Dr. Wickedwhole was a kind of Doctor Moureau The Island of Doctor Moreau (Dr. Moureau's iconic character) and, did illicit experiments on animals, or that she had found the missing link and wanted to hide it. Apart from his nods to H.G. Wells and the aforementioned Jules Verne he ends this first act in a very conradian way and, very much in the line of T.S. Eliot. Brilliantly the Professor leaves you wanting to know what will happen next.
July 9, 2024
ESPAÑOL: Este libro tuvo una historia muy larga. Comencé a escribirlo durante los años setenta, pero después de cuatro capítulos lo abandoné y permaneció archivado durante años. Durante los años 90 volví a comenzarlo, partiendo de cero, para dejarlo estancado de nuevo tras escribir cuatro capítulos. Finalmente, en el año 2003, comencé a escribirlo de nuevo y esta vez lo terminé en poco más de un mes en su versión definitiva.
El libro fue aceptado para su publicación por Editorial Anaya en 2010, y fue publicado en 2012, quedando finalista ese mismo año en el Premio El Templo de las 1000 Puertas.
ENGLISH: This book had a very long history. I started writing it during the seventies, but left it after four chapters, and it remained in my archives for years. During the 90s I started again from scratch, only to leave it again after writing four chapters. Finally, in 2003, I started writing it all over again and this time I finished it n just over a month in the final version.
The book was accepted for publication by Editorial Anaya in 2010, and was published in 2012, becoming a finalist that same year in "El Templo de las 1000 Puertas" Award.
El libro fue aceptado para su publicación por Editorial Anaya en 2010, y fue publicado en 2012, quedando finalista ese mismo año en el Premio El Templo de las 1000 Puertas.
ENGLISH: This book had a very long history. I started writing it during the seventies, but left it after four chapters, and it remained in my archives for years. During the 90s I started again from scratch, only to leave it again after writing four chapters. Finally, in 2003, I started writing it all over again and this time I finished it n just over a month in the final version.
The book was accepted for publication by Editorial Anaya in 2010, and was published in 2012, becoming a finalist that same year in "El Templo de las 1000 Puertas" Award.
January 7, 2013
He estado enganchadísima a este libro. Y el que esté narrado por tres personajes diferentes hace que disfrutes más de la historia. ¡Y menuda historia!
July 26, 2025
Español: Novela en la que Manuel Alfonseca explora algunos de los dilemas éticos asociados al hipotético descubrimiento de especies cercanas al ser humano. El libro comienza muy bien y consigue mantener la atención del lector, con lo que se lee muy rápido. Sin embargo, creo que el final es algo abrupto.
Spanish: Novel in which Manuel Alfonseca explores some of the ethical dilemmas associated with the hypothetical discovery of species close to humans. The book starts very well and manages to hold the reader's attention, making it a very quick read. However, I think the ending is a bit abrupt.
Spanish: Novel in which Manuel Alfonseca explores some of the ethical dilemmas associated with the hypothetical discovery of species close to humans. The book starts very well and manages to hold the reader's attention, making it a very quick read. However, I think the ending is a bit abrupt.
December 19, 2025
I enjoyed the first half more than the second one, as the set-up was so well done that the resolution didn't surprise me that much. Also, I wasn't so convinced by the deductions the characters made halfway through the story, as they had only a footprint of the creature. But it is just a minor thing in the matter of plot execution.
Overall, it is a fast read and very entertaining.
Overall, it is a fast read and very entertaining.
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