The White Desert Luis López Carrasco Review
The White Desert is an unusual debut novel by Luis López Carrasco, expertly translated by Rosalind Harvey. Odd, unsettling and dystopian, the novel starts with nine people fleeing bombs in a hot air balloon which is “deflating a little more with every…
The White Desert is an unusual debut novel by Luis López Carrasco, expertly translated by Rosalind Harvey. Odd, unsettling and dystopian, the novel starts with nine people fleeing bombs in a hot air balloon which is “deflating a little more with every second that passes”. A young man asks “What sort of bombs were they? Was it a nuclear attack? Biological?” while a young woman asserts that they must decide which one of them will jump into the sea so that the others can reach a desert island safely where a new civilisation can be established.
