In a house bigger than his memories, Carlitos wanders through corridors and rooms. He finds lost things he isn’t looking for, and fails to find those he is. One day, he discovers a door locked with a huge padlock.

From that moment on, his curiosity takes the form of a question:

What’s in the cellar? And so it begins to guide him through a world that grows ever stranger, where every answer opens up new questions. Through encounters with bizarre characters—a grandmother who lives inside a cloud of dust, a chatty insect, lying gardeners—he progresses on a journey whose rules bend as if in a dream.

In El sótano, Mario Levrero entertains and unsettles us in an adventure steeped in wonder, uncertainty and humour.

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