PAUL GOLDING

Perdido en un mundo de encuentros anónimos, sumergido en las aguas oleaginosas de los ambientes homosexuales londinenses, Santiago Moore recuerda su infancia en España y su repentino exilio en un internado catolico de Inglaterra, donde dos amores proscritos le cambiaran la vida.

An astonishing, heart-rending tour de force Pat BarkerThe Abomination chronicles the life of Santiago Moore Zamora, a young man born to a beautiful, emotionally distant Spanish mother and an austere English father. Adrift in a world of nameless one night stands, living in a London of suffocating hedonism he remembers his early years in Spain and sudden exile to boarding school in England where two proscribed love affairs set him on a course apart.Goldings tale is no simple fable of innocence lost or trust abused; rather, it is a chilling dissection of inexorable, irreversible alienation . . . This unflinching novel deserves to be readGuardianThis is an accomplished first novel . . . stylish, clever, experimental, ambitious, urbaneTLSThe Abomination is astonishingly assured; the strongest debut since The Swimming-Pool LibraryIndependent

Set against the backdrop of 1980s London, with its spangled haunts and limitless indulgence, Senseless chronicles, through the jaded faculties of its narrator, a world which veers from dancing to desiring, from laughter to disaster, from recreational drugs to prescribed ones, and back. At the core of the story lie Georges two principal relationships - with his brother, Kelly, whom he cannot seem to love, and with his best friend, Matthew, whom he loves like a true brother. Together, George and Matthew confront shame and ignorance with indomitable spirit and dignity. This remarkable novel is at once a defiant elegy for a vanished decade and a love story. Delivered with brutal elegance, Paul Goldings narrative is more than a shoring up against loss. It is a search for sense itself.