Cien noches (A hundred nights)
by Luisgé Martín
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HERRALDE PRIZE 2020 - Approximately half of us confess to being sexually unfaithful to our partners. But are the other half telling the truth or are they lying?
There is only one way to find out: use private detectives or electronic surveillance to observe their lives. This novel proposes an anthropological experiment: to monitor six thousand people without their consent, so that we finally have reliable data about sexual behaviour in our societies.
Irene, the novel’s protagonist, is searching for the secrets of the human soul in our sexuality. She travels from Madrid to Chicago to study psychology, and there, far from her family, she embarks upon a scientific analysis of the men she meets and the men she sleeps with. Her cold investigator’s gaze changes, however, when she falls in love with an Argentinian, Claudio, who has a painful secret and whose family has a dark past linked to his country’s history.
Cien noches is a novel about the human heart, an exploration of our erotic lives, and the tale of police attempts to track down a murderer who has left no trace of his crime. Cien noches explores the different forms love can take, including its most radical and extreme versions, and the variety of our sexual behaviours, some of which are similarly radical and extreme. It records the loyalty, the infidelity, the unmentionable desires, taboos, half-truths and deceptions that are an essential part of our relationships. It talks of masks and lies. And it playfully incorporates a series of adultery case studies written for Luisgé Martín by Edurne Portela, Manuel Vilas, Sergio del Molino, Lara Moreno and José Ovejero, in a thought-provoking exercise in literary promiscuity.
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Herralde Prize 2020
Endorsements
“A meditation on desire and the impossibility of fidelity, a moral fable which combines elements of the detective tale and of science, recounting a life and its pleasures as it builds towards a surprise ending, infused with irresistible poetic inspiration”. - Gonzalo Pontón Gijón
“In Cien noches, a perfect hybrid of the novel of ideas and a fairytale, Luisgé Martín is on stronger form than ever. Romantic love and receptive anuses, emotional loyalty and culpable promiscuity invoke the conflict between ephemeral eroticism and the durability of our emotions, of the impossibility of experiencing pleasure in our lives, even as we do so in the pure enjoyment of literature. A novel we talk to and we talk about. This is the best thing a book can do, asking us questions we want to discuss”.
- Marta Sánz
“Cien noches is the fantasy both of a perverse moralist and of a social anthropologist. It is the fantasy of a novelist who, through fiction, finds a means to explore all the possibilities of a thesis, the stories we would prefer to keep secret, our most intimate habits, what we do when we are sure that nobody is watching and then it turns out that somebody was: the author of this novel”. - Juan Pablo Villalobos
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Author Biography
Luisgé Martín (Madrid, 1962) is a graduate in Spanish Language and Literature from the Complutense University of Madrid and has an MBA from IE Business School. He is a winner of the Ramón Gómez de la Serna Narrative Prize, the Antonio Machado International Prize for Poetry, the Vargas Llosa Short Story Prize and the Llanes de Viajes Prize.
Anagrama has published his four most recent novels:
- La mujer de sombra (Woman in Darkness, Hispabooks, 2014)
- La vida equivocada (The Mistaken Life)
- El amor del revés (Love Back to Front)
- • El mundo feliz (The Happy World)
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- Publisher Anagrama
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9788433999108
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- FormatPaperback
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleSpanish
- Original Language AuthorsSpanish
- Edition3rd edition
- Copyright Year2020
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