Ladrón de mapas

A writer puts his stories on the Web and proposes a singular reading pact. The young Sophie accepts the challenge and the stories, sent via email, which unfold before her eyes like mysterious maps, sparking off a trip that will allow her to reach the heart of darkness from whence emanate the stories that shape our lives. By the hand of filmmakers such as Visconti or Orson Welles or by writes like Conrad, Kipling and Joyce, some of which appear as narrators or characters in the stories that make up The Map Thief, Eduardo Lago takes his readers on a vertiginous road in which life and literature mix non-stop. Africa, India or Russia; Paris, Trieste or New York are some of the stop-overs of a book whose cartography is an exemplarily compendium of the art of story-telling, from the characteristic ways of oral fable recitation to the webstories that hang in the virtual space, all the way through to the dreadful stories that newspapers carry on a daily basis.