Everything is going to get better Almudena Grandes

Draw on uchronies or dystopias to provide a sociological vision. A very common resource in literature. Since Aldous Huxley but also George Orwell, as the most recognized referents of a XNUMXth century that pointed precisely to a world leaning towards another type of dictatorship, buried beyond what is strictly political.

And here we are in this novel by Almudena Grandes a new disturbing vision of the new systems of social control, of grotesque deformation of reality to maintain the status quo. Except that Almudena Grandes get a more humanistic vision if possible of the final effect. Because this author's thing is always close-ups and close-ups. His intra-stories that on this occasion arouse even more uneasiness, if possible, with the necessary glow of hope of any committed narrative...

Spain in the near future. A new political party called Movimiento Ciudadano ¡Soluciones Ya! has swept the elections. The one who directs it in the shadows is a successful businessman who advocates that the Council of Ministers function as a board of directors, and who has ambitious projects to fix the country. After the alarm of a wave of vandalism, he will form a new body of Watchers, after a Great Blackout he will create limited access to the internet, and, in the face of difficulties, he will stimulate freedom of purchase and consumption. All of them will be extraordinary measures because the country is facing new forms of pandemic that require security above all else. “Safety is health. Health is life. Life is security." 

Only a group of ordinary men and women will dare to dismantle the lies of the new regime in which everything appears to improve, when in reality they live under the abuse of unscrupulous powerful people.

Choral novel of political anticipation that has the best of Kisses on the bread and the intrigue of the resisters of "Episodes of an Interminable War", the latest novel by Almudena Grandes It is above all an unforgettable gallery of characters, who tell their experience of adapting to a country that has suffered strong shocks and in which they do not want to resign themselves. The legacy of a great narrator who once again manages to excite us and awaken consciences.

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Everything is going to get better Almudena Grandes
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