Institut Ramon LLull

Down and out in London, a man takes on a series of low-level jobs, working in a hamburger joint and then settling as a night concierge at a hotel, living hand to mouth, meeting a series of colourful characters, both immigrants and British alike, and letting himself be carried along through the lower depths —squalid kitchens, sordid sex, trying roommates and bedbugs— all the while haunted by a recurring death wish. Written in a powerful, accusatory second person narrative, these seemingly futile adventures in self-flagellation gradually reveal the tragic circumstances that led the nameless protagonist to try to lose himself in the English capital, and he comes to accept how his life has been forever changed. Along with that, he ultimately recognizes the miracle that is being alive, which may afford him the possibility of a new start.