El desvío

Short story. Kutxa Ediciones, 2007. 62 pages

Luque has been going from village to village for eight years, crossing valleys and mountains. One night, sitting in front of the steering wheel of his van, he checks the road map again and again trying to remember his way. He had to make it early next morning, he had to cross the whole valley and for the last time he memorized the route and started. But an unexpected event happened changing his destiny.

The Detour won the XLIX Kutxa Ciudad de San Sebastián Prize and was also selected for the “Fostering Reading” Campaign held by the public Transport System Board of the city of San Sebastian, with an initial twenty thousand copy edition.

“A short novel rather than a long tale, it starts like a road movie and ends up like X Files, with the tension of the great stories and a surprising ending”. Álvaro Bermejo.

Published by:  Spanish Kutxa ediciones (contract expired)

Arder en el invierno

Short stories, Ediciones Baile del Sol, 2010, 101 pages

“Burning in the winter is short, but intense. It has a three part structure in which there is a text for each letter of the alphabet. Through an oniric climate, loaded with melancholy, a sad love story is and isn’t told. It is also a story of nostalgia, poetry and passion and contains a delicate enthusiasm for failure that defines the good literature. Marcelo Luján knows, like every real writer, that no human story has a happy ending”. Ana María Shua.

Published by:  Spanish worldwide Ediciones Baile del Sol

Flores para Irene

Short stories. Ayuntamiento Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 75 pages
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Prize, 2004

The interior monologue that starts off this collection of short stories will be an unforgettable and fundamental matter and it will escort the reader throughout the voyage. In this way, even if absent, Irene Straviwsky will be a constant, somewhat disturbing reminder for each of the characters that run through these five short stories.

“Marcelo Luján is the magic wand that turns language into literature. His stories are written with talent, full of resources and have a rhythm that captures the reader from the first line”, Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga

Published by: Spanish Ayuntamiento Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

En algún cielo

Short stories.  Fundación Colegio del Rey, 2007. 166 pages
Ciudad de Alcalá de Narrativa Prize

A young man who will never forget the tears shed by a strange and unknown woman, an exile who dreams two dreams in one whilst his new couple confuses him, a man who travels at dawn in a tireless train to escape from that which is inescapable, a war veteran who lives in the capital of the country against which he fought, a psychopath who kidnaps his ex-girlfriend and decides to have her murdered, a novice writer who confronts himself as he gathers information on an unforgettable family history… All these events, the characters’ reasons to do or not to do something, are the hard core and also the narrative power-engine of these six short stories that compose In Some Sky.

Obsession, fear, perception, confidence, resentment, as well as reality and silence, are the elements which Marcelo Luján is able to weave into a vigorous and renovated prose.

Published by: Fundación Colegio del Rey (contract expired)

La mala espera

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

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