BOOK / THE LAST TIME IT WAS YESTERDAY. Agustín Márquez

NARRATIVE

Chico B's accident, an all-too-common occurrence in the hostile environment where the novel takes place, triggers a change in the two protagonists of this story: the narrator and the neighborhood. This painful death revives a memory the narrator believed he had buried and under control in the depths of his memory, and simultaneously accelerates the neighborhood's transformation. In pursuit of that dubious mirage of prosperity and progress (which rescued some, but also devastated many), the streets, businesses, and homes begin to change, and with them the characters who frequent and inhabit them.

Narrated in the first person, with a direct and deliberately aseptic style, The Last Time Was Yesterday has something of an intimate chronicle of one of those peripheral neighborhoods of our cities, plagued by misery, decay, and violence. But it's also the story of confused and forgotten young people who, amidst hustle and bustle, obsessions, and dreams, try to survive and be happy. It's also the moving portrait of a few strange characters who provide them with something resembling tenderness: a drug dealer fond of canaries, a boy obsessed with fire, and a dog named Mazinger who wanders around the world.

Title: La última vez que fue ayer
Author: Agustín Márquez
Pages: 160
Size: 14 x 24 cm
Weight: 200 grams
Genre: Fiction
Language: Spanish
Binding: Regular cover
Publisher: Candaya
Year: 2019