The White Desert

Opens with the end of the world and gets weirder from there... For readers who like to do their own joining up, and who want a playful, original take on our precarious lives, this is a thought-provoking treat * Guardian *
Gorgeous, gripping, and totally original, The White Desert is a book of connection and loss against a backdrop of quiet catastrophe. I was captivated as its full force crept up on me, and by the end I was deeply moved -- Elvia Wilk
A novel of fractured voices and fragile connections and shockingly persistent life. Existential dread atomises itself over everything - like a parlour game you didn't know you were playing. I loved it -- Ben Pester
Limpid, striking and astute, The White Desert hums with urgency and ideas -- Chloe Aridjis
Imagines a very near future in which - without nostalgia, but in a beautiful melancholic tone - we haven't forgotten who we were and who we are... A formally daring, fun, endearing, witty, stimulating novel -- Juan Pablo Villalobos
Unusual... Expertly translated... Carrasco frames modern melancholy as a symptom of an unstable world where compliance is a dangerous illusion of safety. He updates Orwell's control and Huxley's distraction for today's hyper-digital capitalism, capturing this landscape in a surreal, reality-bending "otherwhere" * BookBlast *