Plaza y Janés, 2013 / DeBolsillo, 2014, Spain, 304 pages
Original Spanish title: El sueño del otro
Genre: fiction
Xavier Arteaga is a public high school teacher who dreams every night that he is André Bodoc, an Editor of the nightly news. André Bodoc is the Editor of the nightly news who dreams every night that he is Xavier Arteaga, a public high school teacher. But who is dreaming about who? Who is real and who is dreaming?
Xavier is an ordinary man, divorced, with one child, who has seen the little he had in life wrenched from him. He wants to recover what he once had or, perhaps, even build a better future. But the nervous breakdown caused by dreaming about someone else’s life ends up by pushing him into a series of searches. He chases answers, chases people and, in the end, he chases André Bodoc. André is a successful, articulate man, a media expert highly skilled in manipulating and interpreting facts. When he also starts losing self-control, he becomes obsessed by what is real and what is illusory.
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