A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustin Fernandez Mallo's Nocilla Trilogy - NOCILLA DREAM, NOCILLA EXPERIENCE and NOCILLA LAB - presents multiple narratives of people and places that reflect the world in the digital age. In this third, standalone volume, we find the author bedridden in Thailand after being knocked down by a motorbike, an accident which fortuitously gave him the time and space to begin writing the trilogy. Seven years later, when he travels with his girlfriend to Sardinia, they come across an old penitentiary that has been converted into an agritourism site. In a tour de force reminiscent of Adolfo Bioy Casares' THE INVENTION OF MOREL, a story of suspense and exploration unfolds in the uninhabited hotel. From autofiction to horror story to graphic novel, NOCILLA LAB is a fitting conclusion to one of the most daring literary experiments of the twenty-first century.

Author Biography

Agustin Fernandez Mallo was born in La Coruna in 1967, and is a qualified physicist. In 2000 he formulated a self-termed theory of `post-poetry', which explores connections between art and science and has been the principal focus in several prize-winning collections of poetry since then. The Nocilla Trilogy, published between 2006 and 2009, brought about an important shift in contemporary Spanish writing and paved the way for the birth of a new generation of authors, known as the `Nocilla Generation'. His long essay POSTPOESIA, HACIA UN NUEVO PARADIGMA was shortlisted for the Anagrama Essay Prize in 2009. In 2018 he published a long essay, TEORIA DE LA BASURA (CULTURA, APROPRIACIONISMO Y COMPLEJIDAD) won the Biblioteca Breve Prize for his latest novel, TRILOGIA DE LA GUERRA (forthcoming from Fitzcarraldo Editions).