La mala espera (The Wrong Await)

Marcelo Luján

Novel. EDAF, 2009, 227 pages
Prize Ciudad de Getafe for Black Novel , 2009

An Argentinian immigrant known as El Nene has spent several years in Madrid, surviving on the jobs he receives from a clandestine drug trafficking “agency”- Nene’s life takes a sudden turn when he accepts a proposal to “keep the change” from one of his riskiest drug deals, involving the transportation of pure cocaine inside the bodies of Central American children. The missing kilos of cocaine soon lead Nene into his worst nightmare. Nene decides to try his luck at exposing the heads of the agency, but what he doesn’t realize is that everyone around him is part of a complex scheme of false identities, death, survival, betrayal and thirty three years of waiting to take revenge for past wrongs.

The wrong await is not a story of revenge itself, but rather it is a portrait of all the consuming power of waiting to take revenge on your enemies.

“With this novel, Luján acquires a place of a singular value in the Spanish contemporary narrative”. Lorenzo Slva

“With The wrong await, Luján gets what is most difficult for a novelist: that the reader identifies with the character to the point of feeling every punch, every doubt, every fear that happens to the protagonist. And that hurts. And creates addiction”. Carlos Salem

“Marcelo Luján possesses a rich and direct language and his environments and characters are surprising”. Óscar Urra.

Published by: Spanish worldwide EDAF/France Moisson Rouge