{"product_id":"libro-el-efecto-deseado-guillermo-alonso","title":"El efecto deseado","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"60\" data-end=\"146\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"60\" data-end=\"146\"\u003eLife and adventures of a modern rogue torn between drama and laughter.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"148\" data-end=\"702\"\u003eGaspar is nineteen years old and alone in the world. After the death of his mother, who raised him alone in a rundown hotel where she worked as a jack-of-all-trades, he tries to make a living the best way he knows: serving others, fixing broken things, and going unnoticed. First as an assistant to Pandora, a wealthy widow who survives by indulging in eccentric parties, and later as a caretaker for a couple whose faces have become unrecognizable after an accident and who hire him with a single strange condition: not to ask a single question.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"704\" data-end=\"1083\"\u003eLike a modern picaresque novel, \u003cem data-start=\"742\" data-end=\"761\"\u003eEl efecto deseado\u003c\/em\u003e follows the life of the orphan Gaspar as he awakens to a world where, to avoid being devoured, he must go from being prey to becoming a hunter. A long journey full of fears and excesses, taking him from a frivolous and decadent capital to a mansion inhabited by ghosts on a lost island in the Mediterranean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1085\" data-end=\"1403\"\u003eAfter dazzling with the short story collection \u003cem data-start=\"1125\" data-end=\"1154\"\u003eLa lengua entre los dientes\u003c\/em\u003e, Guillermo Alonso continues refining a unique style that effortlessly takes the reader from melodrama to laughter in \"an emotional carousel as hilarious as it is tender, with echoes of McCullers and Capote, absolutely brilliant\" (Rosario Villajos).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"You laugh until you start to cry.\" Marta del Riego, Zenda\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A perfect cocktail between a contemporary Capote and the corrosive intelligence of Bret Easton Ellis.\" María Jesús Espinosa de los Monteros\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"As hilarious as it is tender. Absolutely brilliant.\" Rosario Villajos\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Seix Barral","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57371776057688,"sku":"LIB-EL-SE-898669","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/978843224877.jpg?v=1779786868","url":"https:\/\/www.plasticbooks.uk\/en\/products\/libro-el-efecto-deseado-guillermo-alonso","provider":"Plastic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}