LEADER 00000pam 2200385 i 4500 003 DLC 005 20221201092843.0 008 210709s2022 nyu e 000 1 eng 010 2021033508 020 9781942658931|q(paperback ;|qacid-free paper) 040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dIMmBT|dNjBwBT|dUtOrBLW 041 1 eng|hspa 042 pcc 043 e-sp--- 092 |fF|aMILLAS 100 1 Millás García, Juan José,|d1946-|eauthor. 245 10 Let no one sleep /|cJuan José Millás ; translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead. 250 First edition. 264 1 New York :|bBellevue Literary Press,|c2022. 300 207 pages ;|c21 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 520 "After the IT firm where she works shuts down, Lucía has a vision of her future career as a taxi driver, brought on by the intoxicating opera floating through her apartment's air vent. She obtains her taxi license and meets the neighbor responsible for the music. Calaf, he says, is his name, also the name of the character from Puccini's Turandot and the name of the bird Lucía received on her 10th birthday from her long-since-dead mother. When Calaf moves out of her building, Lucía becomes obsessed, driving through Madrid and searching for him on every corner, meeting intriguing characters along the way. What follows is a surreal tale of superstition and coincidence, featuring Millás's singular dark humor. Let No One Sleep is a delirious novel in which the mundane and extraordinary collide, art revives and devastates, and identity is unhinged by the forces of globalized capitalism"--|cProvided by publisher. 650 0 Taxicab drivers|vFiction. 650 0 Neighbors|vFiction. 650 0 Man-woman relationships|vFiction. 650 0 Future life|vFiction. 650 0 Time travel|vFiction. 651 0 Madrid (Spain)|vFiction. 655 7 Novels.|2lcgft 700 1 Bunstead, Thomas,|etranslator. 730 0 Que nadie duerma.|lEnglish.
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