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Adolfo Garcia Ortega was born in 1958 and lives in Madrid and Barcelona. He is a translator, literary critic, journalist and former editorial director of the prestigious Spanish publishing house Seix Barral. His critically acclaimed novels have won many prizes. Desolation Island is his first book to be translated into English.
An adventure story...extravagantly enthralling -- Michael Kerrigan * Times Literary Supplement * It's a rich, complicated, eccentric gumbo of a book... An epic tale of the restless journeys of the mind * Metro * Ortega's energy and relentless inventiveness succeed in creating a seamless and utterly compelling blend of the past and the present, the real and the imaginary. A Bolaño-like encyclopaedia...the literary equivalent of a Renaissance cabinet of curiosities... One of the most original novels to have appeared in Spain in recent years, Desolation Island is ultimately a magnificent tale of travel * Literary Review * Desolation Island has all the characteristics of a postmodern classic...has all the elements of the classic adventure novel, from The Odyssey to Moby Dick * El País * An ambitious and successful novel that confronts the reader with important questions: love, death, identity, evil... * El Periodico *
