Amidst the seedy hotels and deserted campsites of the Costa Brava, someone has gone missing.

A detective sets out to find them. They search among the hapless girls, failed poets, and shifty policemen that populate this dream world but every door opens onto a nightmare.

An experimental novella, spliced together in vignettes, Antwerp is Roberto Bola o s first work of fiction. A personal declaration of the power of literature, to read it is to be present at the big bang of Bola o s enterprise into prose, to see the beginning, to witness the moment when his talent explodes.

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'A fascinating, even compulsory addition to the Bola o fan s bookshelf' Daily Telegraph

Bola o set a new speed limit for literature. He simply wrote past other authors... His books are volcanic, perilous, charged with infectious erotic energy and demonic lucidity Benjam n Labatut, author of The Maniac