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Pandora in Congo – Sanchez Piñol Albert – ABC – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-389-30381-2

Pandora in Congo
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1914, London. A certain Marcus Garvey is imprisoned for the double murder of the Craver brothers, English aristocrats to whom he was in servitude. Together they set out in search of the untold treasures of the Congo, but only Marcus returned from Africa—with two gigantic diamonds and a terrifying story about what lurks in the depths of the jungle, threatening to devour the entire world.

Tommy Thomson, an aspiring writer and a very unlucky ghostwriter, dreams of writing a novel and immediately agrees when Marcus's lawyer suggests writing a book about what happened to his client in Africa. How did the Craver brothers die? What atrocities does the jungle conceal? Is love possible amidst such impenetrable horror? Day after day, Tommy Thomson visits the prison, listens to Marcus, and tries to unravel the inspiring tale of the sinister events that befell the English in the heart of African darkness.

Albert Sánchez Piñol is an anthropologist and one of the greatest and most original stars of Catalan literature. He creates astonishing worlds where the real and the fantastic blend, and where man repeatedly encounters the Other in the best traditions of Lovecraft, Conrad, and Stevenson. Pandora in the Congo is his second novel, a brilliant pastiche, a profound reimagining and parody of the adventure genre in the vein of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Haggard, and Boussenard, a parable about the power of imagination and the search for truth, a vivid reminder that in any good story, truth is elusive and nothing is as it seems.

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