La gente

A real town transformed into a phantasmagorical puppet show. A gallery of characters woven into a shared plot where almost nothing is quite what it seems. In his new novel, Felipe Benítez Reyes essentially poses the enigma of identity: how we interpret ourselves through the indulgent voice of conscience, and how we interpret others based on information that is generally ambiguous and deceptive. A surprising narrative construct that presents an unsettling mural of the human condition. An exploration of the intricate secret that constitutes any life. Life, in short, as a strange fiction performed before others.