Part of the Peter Owen World Series: Spain. From Spain's answer to Chuck Palahniuk, Alex Garland and Brett Easton Ellis, Jose Ovejero's taut, existential thriller of first mistaken and then stolen identity exposes the fictions people create to sustain themselves in the modern world.

When Samuel receives a call out of the blue about the death of his lover, Clara, his own numbing existence seems about to come to an end. Does it matter that he never knew Clara? And, if he invents a past for his love and his loss, could he even fake his way through her funeral? Unable to pass up the chance at a new life, Samuel starts down a path of lies until he can no longer distinguish between real and invented.