Pedro Andreu

El secadero de iguanas

INFORMATION

A desert. A road. A motel. In this place abandoned to its destiny after an inexplicable catastrophe, a handful of people try to find happiness. Some drink, others love. Some go mad. Voices fight silences. Loneliness. Beauty. Desire. Every year, the parsimonious iguanas come to die in front of the motel, on the other side of the road, in a place known as El secadero. In their eyes inhabits an abyss that frightens and attracts at the same time. The violence of passion. The smell of death. The jingle of bottles hanging from a tree. The descriptions of Pedro Andreu, who with this work debuts as a novelist, grab the reader and drag him irremediably to that mysterious place in the desert where the deepest human longings beat. This work won the International Fantastic Novel Contest.