Bad Hombres

A riotous, razor-sharp dissection of cancel culture from one of our most acclaimed and thrilling young novelists

'An audacious book that is seductive precisely because it dares to shock' Emmanuel Carrère He's got a ten-foot dick but he won't commit. He doesn't rate your work. He - maybe - gave you herpes. His wife doesn't even know. Isn't it time to take him down? The women in Pola's circle have had enough of these so-called bad hombres, these irresistible instruments of the patriarchy who won't align themselves to the new mode. Sure, what they've done is mostly hearsay, or consensual, and now they could lose their careers, their homes - but isn't cancellation what they deserve, perhaps the only lesson they will understand? Caught between the good feminists and the bad hombres, unsure which side to take, she unpicks their versions of the truth. When suspicion can be weaponised against anyone - including herself - who can survive unscathed? Translated from Spanish by Adam Morris