El pelo de Van't Hoff

Synopsis of El pelo de Van't Hoff

«El pelo de Van't Hoff» is the contemporary fiction novel by Unai Elorriaga, published by Alfaguara in paperback (200 pages, in Spanish).

Matías Malanda arrives in a strange region to gather biographies, but gets sidetracked when he finds some encyclopedias that lead him to something more important. He stays at a boarding house with the same name as his. Everything is a game: dictionaries, snakes, imagination, and a narrator who plays with the story. A novel that proposes another way of looking at life.

The original work is «Van't Hoffen ilea»; this Spanish edition won the Igartza Grant for literary creation and belongs to the Hispánica collection.

For readers of contemporary fiction who appreciate narrative games and reflection on life.