Overview
Una crisis financiera desestabiliza las potencias mundiales. Un virus infecta a la población. No es 2020: es Vonnegut siendo el escritor más avanzado de su generación.
Mientras el mundo está sumido en una crisis financiera sin precedentes, un selecto grupo de seres humanos que disfrutaban de un crucero naufragan y quedan atrapados en la isla de Santa Rosalía. Este aparente infortunio les librará, no obstante, del virus letal que, en todos los confines de la tierra excepto en aquella islita que ellos habitan, provoca la esterilidad. Tienen un millón de años para repoblar la tierra y hacerlo mejor, un reto evolutivo chiflado pero inexcusable.
En esta novela inimitable y llena de humor, que homenajea al mismísimo Darwin y lleva al extremo los preceptos de la ciencia ficción, el gran maestro satírico de la literatura anticipó de forma casi profética el derrumbe socioeconómico y el terror pandémico que llegaría después. En ella observó el mundo de cerca y señaló todo aquello que está terriblemente mal y duele, pero también todo aquello que merece la pena salvar.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A financial crisis destabilizes world powers. A virus infects the population. It is not 2020—this is Vonnegut being the most progressive writer of his generation.
While the world is mired in an unprecedented financial crisis, a select group of people that were enjoying a cruise become cast aways, stranded in Santa Rosalía island. This apparent misfortune will save them, however, of the lethal virus that causes infertility in all corners of the earth, except for that small island where they live. They have a million years to repopulate Earth and make it better, an insane, yet inexcusable, evolutionary challenge.
In this one-of-a-kind novel, filled with humor, a homage to Darwin himself, that takes to an extreme the statutes of science fiction, the great satirical literature master anticipated, almost prophetically, the socio-economic collapse and the pandemic horror that would come next. In this novel, he observed the world up close and identified everything that is terribly wrong and painful, but also what is worth saving.
Mientras el mundo está sumido en una crisis financiera sin precedentes, un selecto grupo de seres humanos que disfrutaban de un crucero naufragan y quedan atrapados en la isla de Santa Rosalía. Este aparente infortunio les librará, no obstante, del virus letal que, en todos los confines de la tierra excepto en aquella islita que ellos habitan, provoca la esterilidad. Tienen un millón de años para repoblar la tierra y hacerlo mejor, un reto evolutivo chiflado pero inexcusable.
En esta novela inimitable y llena de humor, que homenajea al mismísimo Darwin y lleva al extremo los preceptos de la ciencia ficción, el gran maestro satírico de la literatura anticipó de forma casi profética el derrumbe socioeconómico y el terror pandémico que llegaría después. En ella observó el mundo de cerca y señaló todo aquello que está terriblemente mal y duele, pero también todo aquello que merece la pena salvar.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A financial crisis destabilizes world powers. A virus infects the population. It is not 2020—this is Vonnegut being the most progressive writer of his generation.
While the world is mired in an unprecedented financial crisis, a select group of people that were enjoying a cruise become cast aways, stranded in Santa Rosalía island. This apparent misfortune will save them, however, of the lethal virus that causes infertility in all corners of the earth, except for that small island where they live. They have a million years to repopulate Earth and make it better, an insane, yet inexcusable, evolutionary challenge.
In this one-of-a-kind novel, filled with humor, a homage to Darwin himself, that takes to an extreme the statutes of science fiction, the great satirical literature master anticipated, almost prophetically, the socio-economic collapse and the pandemic horror that would come next. In this novel, he observed the world up close and identified everything that is terribly wrong and painful, but also what is worth saving.
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