Amado Gurú : Crónicas desde la tierra

What would an extraterrestrial intelligence see if it had to explain humanity to its home planet? What would they think of our wars, our religions, our borders, our fears, and that strange obsession with destroying what we claim to love? In Beloved Guru, J. J. Benítez once again demonstrates why he is one of the most singular and widely read authors in Spanish literature. With his unmistakable blend of mystery, irony, reflection, and wonder, he constructs an unclassifiable work: an external and profoundly unsettling look at our civilization. For more than thirty years, he traveled the world in search of signals. He located nearly five thousand and, from among them all, selected those that shape this book. In its pages, the spaceship Magonia arrives on a deserted Earth, where all traces of life have vanished. What its crew discovers among the last vestiges of our world will completely change the way we understand who we were… and who we believe ourselves to be. Through reports that seem to come from another world, Benítez confronts the reader with an uncomfortable question: perhaps the real enigma is not in the universe… but in ourselves.