Un hombre bajo el agua

Juan Manuel Gil

"An unclassifiable, addictive, brutal novel. A narrative exercise at the height of very few".

A man under water is a journey back and forth to childhood through memory, a story that speaks to us of the excessive complexity with which adults look at the world. An unexpected event triggers a magnificent narrative exercise, in which the story gives way to the presence of the author and the life that surrounds him, until both end up being the real protagonists. This is an unclassifiable novel, full of rhythm, unexpected twists, in which Juan Manuel Gil demonstrates a brutal literary mastery.

Juan Manuel Gil

He was born in Almería in 1979. Writer and teacher of Spanish Language and Literature. He received the creation grant from the Antonio Gala Foundation. He is the author of the book of poems Guía inútil de un naufragio, for which he received the Premio Andalucía Joven de Poesía. He has also published the novel Inopia, prologue by the writer Enrique Vila-Matas; the strange volume Mi padre y yo. A western, for which he received the Argaria Especial Award 2013; the book of short stories and other texts Hipstamatic 100; and the novel Las islas vertebradas, which was selected by Playground Books as one of the ten best fiction books of 2017. A man under water is his most recent work.