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"In ""Exiled from Almost Everywhere,"" Juan Goytisolo's perverse mutant protagonist--the Parisian ""Monster of Le Sentier""--is blown up by an extremist bomber and finds himself in the cyberspace of the Thereafter with an infinite collection of computer monitors. His curiosity piqued, he uses the screens at hand to explore the multiple ways war and terrorism are hyped in the Hereafter of his old life where he once happily cruised bathrooms and accosted children. Ricocheting from life to death and back again, meeting various colorful demagogues along the way--the imam ""Alice,"" a pedophile Monsignor, and a Rastafarian rabbi--our ""Monster"" revisits seedy democracies that are a welter of shopping-cities and righteous violence voted in by an eternally duped citizenry and defended by the infamous erogenous bomb. At once fantastical and cruelly real, ""Exiled from Almost Everywhere"" hurtles the reader through our troubled times in a Swiftian series of grisly cartoon screenshots."

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...playfully innovative and wickedly subversive... Booklist, Undoubtedly the greatest living Spanish novelist. Carlos Fuentes, His works - short, violent and frightening - are like pages torn out of the book of experience. Helen Cantarella, New York Times Book Review, Juan Goytisolo is the best living Spanish novelist. Times Literary Supplement.

"""...playfully innovative and wickedly subversive..."" Booklist, ""Undoubtedly the greatest living Spanish novelist."" Carlos Fuentes, ""His works - short, violent and frightening - are like pages torn out of the book of experience."" Helen Cantarella, New York Times Book Review, ""Juan Goytisolo is the best living Spanish novelist."" Times Literary Supplement."

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"Ne a Barcelone, en 1931, intellectuel engage, oppose au franquisme, Juan Goytisolo s'est tres tot exile a Paris. Aujourd'hui installe a Marrakech, il est devenu un critique implacable de la civilisation occidentale. Auteur d'une quinzaine de romans et de nombreux essais, il a recu, en 1985, le prix Europalia pour l'ensemble de son uvre, en 2002 le prix Octavio Paz, en 2004 le prix Juan Rulfo de litterature latino-americaine et caribeenne, et en novembre 2008 le prestigieux Prix national des Lettres espagnoles.Photo: Circulo de Lectores. Peter Bush has translated nine books by Juan Goytisolo, including ""Exiled from Almost Everywhere"" and ""Juan the Landless"", as well as novels by other prominent Spanish and Latin American writers."

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