Titles
Recuérdame que te odie
Recuérdame que te odie (Remind me to hate you), novel
Bruno Kosovski, an emotionally deranged comic artist, has disappeared. When his editor, the neurasthenic and irritable Rubén Ondarra, enters his flat, he finds it inundated. Rubén decides to investigate Bruno`s disappearance and looks for hints between the objects on his desk. There, he finds a mysterious picture by Dürer, Melancolía 1. This is the beginning of a dangerous race through the maddest side of Madrid, trying to get together all the pieces of this puzzle.
Álex de la Iglesia leads us through a surprising, tension-filled and brilliant plot full of intrigues, plenty of critiques and irony. Recuérdame que te odie is one of the best contemporary novels.
Spain: Planeta, 2014
About the author: Álex de la Iglesia (Bilbao, 1965) is cinema director, producer and script writer. He got his degree in Philosophy at the Universidad de Deusto in 1991; in the same year he realized his first short movie as a co-script writer and director, Mirindas asesinas. The film was awarded at several festivals and let Pedro Almodovar to patronage his first long movie, Acción mutante (1993), awarded with three Goyas. His next movie El día de la bestia (1995), was awarded with six Goyas.
Álex de la Iglesia has also been very successful with movies such as Perdita Durango (1997), Muertos de risa (1999), La comunidad (2000), 800balas (2002), Crimen perfecto (2004), Los crímenesde Oxford (2007), Balada triste de trompeta (2010) and Las brujas de Zugarramurdi (2013), the latter awarded with eight Goyas and two fotogramas de plata. He produced television series such as Plutón B. R. B. Nero and was president of the Cinema Academy (Academia de Cine) from 2009 to 2011.
One of his characteristics is his black humour. He also wrote the satiric novel Payasos en la lavadora (2009).
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