Si sintieras bajo los pies las estructuras mayores

Something alive and impossible to classify has run through the planet since its beginning and may well outlast it. It grows under the ground and breaks the surface as a fantastic plant, linked to the human psyche. The novel's narrators bear witness to it at turning points in history: the conquest of the Americas in 1504, London in 1888 in the days of Jack the Ripper, 1945 and the atomic bombs, and a future only fiction can picture. Each time, this organism, called the biont, both frightening and sheltering, mirrors humanity's course and the horror of its idea of progress.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Speculative, Historical (assigned by AI)

First published

2025 by Clarín/Alfaguara

ISBN

9789870759560 (original)