The Tentacles

In this unclassifiable novel with punk energy, where eras and characters intertwine, you will come across the Afro-Caribbean divinities of the Caribbean, the songs of ABBA and electro music, the buccaneers hunting wild cattle, the engravings of Goya and performance art… In 2027, in a Dominican Republic marked by several ecological disasters, Acilde, a poor teenager, has recently become the servant of Esther Escudero, high priestess of Santería. She seeks to illegally sell the anemone owned by her boss to acquire Rainbow Bright, a drug that would allow her to change sex without surgery. Simultaneously, in the early 2000s, Argenis, an artist in distress, was invited in residence by a couple of patrons who wanted to create a marine sanctuary to protect the coral reefs of Sosua. Between Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Shakespeare's The Tempest, the plot unfolds like tentacles, and tackles subjects as strong as sexual identity, ecological disasters or social inequalities, with, as a line of horizon, an essential question: if we could change the course of history, how far would we be willing to go? "An unclassifiable and wonderful novel, whose plot cannot be summed up: between Blade Runner and Proust, we move from ocean pollution to sex, from Goya's prints to Afro-Caribbean divinities. » Estrella de Diego, El País