A kaleidoscopic vision of love that is born and dies in the big city
Marcelo and Eloísa don’t know it, but they are destined to break up. Claudia and Fran think this time everything will be different. Nerea believes she is not in love with her teacher, and Luis has fallen in love with his student. Eva can’t stand having to share Pedro with little Rita on alternate weeks. Guille doesn’t know if he likes Carmen or hates her… The stories in No todo el mundo offer a kaleidoscopic view of love that is born and dies in the big city. Between hopes and disappointments, we dive into a clear-sighted reflection on how the relationships we maintain define us and how we fit our uniqueness into the gaze of the other.
With the elegance and narrative maturity she already showed in Los nombres propios, Marta Jiménez Serrano builds in her second book a precise, meticulous, and delicate map of intimacy. Emotional but also ironic, sometimes radiant and other times bittersweet, No todo el mundo works like a mirror in which we can only see ourselves reflected and reminds us that all of us, for better or worse, have at some point seen our existence shaken by the relentless power of love and its consequences.
“Marta Jiménez Serrano dissects the details of human relationships with such clarity that she manages to reach the most astonishing universality from a finely detailed concreteness, connecting the familiar with the remote, the sharp with the comic, and bathing the anthropological interest in an addictive sauce.”
Elisa Victoria
“Written with delightful boldness and a dazzling sense of pace, these stories by Marta Jiménez Serrano form a lucid, compassionate, and hilarious portrait of contemporary love.”
Alejandro Zambra
“A memorable book about that subject everyone thinks they’re an expert on but almost no one really knows anything about. Exactly: love.”
Andrés Barba
