Gustavo Pecoraro brings us from Argentina a novel with careful and fresh prose, pouring into these pages his life and that of so many men born at the end of the 20th century.
In his first novel published in Spain, Gustavo Pecoraro offers us a story halfway between the autobiographical and the collective, weaving a tender and emotional tale through two voices: the author's sexual experiences in bathrooms and cruising places, and his relationship with Nelly, his mother.
"There are too many things one shares with the protagonist-narrator. For those of us who were young in the eighties, the smell of love will always be that of bleach and urine; the smell of losing friends to the HIV pandemic, that too, because, although it was thought to only affect the riffraff and therefore not be so urgent, the cases were getting closer and closer, the circle was closing in, and suddenly it was a close friend, a lover, or even you." From the prologue by José Luis Serrano.
Author's biography
Gustavo Pecoraro (Mar del Plata, 1965) is a writer, screenwriter, journalist, and poet. He has published five books, two essays, and three poetry collections. Some of his poems were included in La lira marica. Una antología de poesía homoerotica argentina (The Marican Lira. An Anthology of Argentine Homoerotic Poetry) (Saraza, 2022). He has contributed to the Soy supplement of Página 12, La Garganta Poderosa, Casa País, Cosecha Roja, and numerous media outlets. He hosts the podcasts Puto viejo (Old Man), Aquí me pongo a contar (Here I Start to Tell), and Zona de respuestas (Response Zone). He is co-writer of the documentary El puto unforgettable. Vida de Carlos Jáuregui (The Unforgettable Puto. Life of Carlos Jáuregui) and screenwriter of Luces azules (Blue Lights) and Marta, vení (Marta, Come). He is currently a correspondent from Madrid for Infobae; a communications advisor for the Huésped Foundation; and an advisor to the National Congress on the Women and Diversity Commission. De querer así (If I Want It Like That) is his first novel.
