El Club de la Derrota

To join the Defeat Club, you need only meet one requirement: be an absolute failure. This exclusive society is composed of a select group of inveterate losers—petty criminals, disgraced soccer players, luckless explorers, weathered prostitutes, lawyers who never win a case, and writers whose work is never read. *The Defeat Club* is a collection of fifteen stories—each a winner in various literary competitions—linked by the common threads of misfortune and an ever-elusive destiny. In these tales, infused with dark humor and irony—yet also touched by tenderness and biting social commentary—things never unfold as the protagonists might wish; the coin always lands on tails, and optimism remains an unattainable luxury. These fifteen stories hook the reader from the very first line, leading toward entirely unexpected conclusions. Any setting can become fertile ground for defeat: a bankrupt funeral home, a death-row inmate suffering from amnesia, a clear-headed patricide, an alcoholic violinist, a man in his fifties prone to falling in love, an octogenarian hitman, a lifeboat packed with starving castaways…