{"product_id":"the-things-weve-seen-9781913097301","title":"The Things We've Seen","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Things We've Seen\u003c\/em\u003e, his most ambitious and accomplished novel to date, Agust?n Fern?ndez Mallo captures the strangeness and interconnectedness of human existence in the twenty-first century. A writer travels to the small uninhabited island of San Sim?n, used as a Franquist concentration camp during the Spanish Civil War, and witnesses events which impel him on a wild goose chase across several continents. In Miami, an ageing Kurt Montana, the fourth astronaut who secretly accompanied Neil Armstrong and co. to the moon, revisits the important chapters in his life, from serving in the Vietnam War to his memory of seeing earth from space. In Normandy, a woman embarks on a walking tour of the D-Day beaches with the goal of re-enacting, step by step, another trip taken years before. Described as the novel David Lynch and W. G. Sebald might have written had they joined forces to explore the B-side of reality, \u003cem\u003eThe Things We've Seen\u003c\/em\u003e is a mind-bending novel for our disjointed times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgustín Fernández Mallo was born in La Coruña in 1967, and is a qualified physicist. In 2000 he formulated a self-termed theory of 'post-poetry' which explores connections between art and science. His \u003cem\u003eNocilla Trilogy\u003c\/em\u003e, published between 2006 and 2009, brought about an important shift in contemporary Spanish writing and paved the way for the birth of a new generation of authors, known as the 'Nocilla Generation'. His essay \u003cem\u003ePostpoesía: hacia un nuevo paradigma\u003c\/em\u003e was shortlisted for the Anagrama Essay Prize in 2009. In 2018 his long essay \u003cem\u003eTeoría general de la basura (cultura, apropiación, complejidad) \u003c\/em\u003ewas published by Galaxia Gutenberg, and in the same year his latest novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Things We've Seen\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Biblioteca Breve Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fitzcarraldo Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50681903710482,"sku":"9781913097301","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_17026e2b-9070-4509-988e-e258cc749ba1.jpg?v=1733960385","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-things-weve-seen-9781913097301","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}