Croatoan
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José Carlos Somoza is one of Spain's most popular writers, winner of the Golden Dagger Award and many other literary prizes (Silver Dagger Awards and Gold Dagger Awards, Nadal Prize, Cervantes Theatre Prize, Café Gijon Prize). In Somoza's novel Croatoan, strange events take place. On September 6 (in the not-too-distant future), the world goes mad: people and animals, snakes and insects in colonies walk, crawl, fly - in a single rhythm, a single body - through cities, forests, mountains and swamps. Any living creatures encountered along the way either join the ominous procession or perish on the spot. Governments of different countries, police, scientists, journalists are lost in conjectures, not understanding what is happening, because the total epidemic has covered almost the entire planet. Television screens are going out, communication ceases to work. The extinction of all forms of civilization is coming. This apocalypse was foreseen by Professor Carlos Mandel, an animal behaviorist who committed suicide two years ago. Before his death, he programmed a message to be sent to several people close to him, including his student, biologist Carmela Garces, that could help change the course of these terrible events. But will they be able to understand this signal, because the message consists of a single word - "Croatoan"? This inscription was found on a remote island where, in the sixteenth century, the entire population mysteriously disappeared...
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