Translation Rights TQE / Nobody Kills Me

What would you do if one day you woke up with amnesia in a body that was not your own? What would you do if each time you fell asleep your soul switched bodies and you were therefore forced to be, successively, a beautiful actress, a lonely little girl, a crooked policeman, a relapsed junkie?

In an unknown time, in a terrifying Madrid broken up by ditches and panicking over the avian flu, the main character of this story goes from one body to the next trying to find his own identity, trying not to fall in love with a girl who attracts all of his different bodies, trying to watch a movie which surprisingly holds the key to what is happening and trying to prevent a crime to which he has already been a witness and whose details are familiar to him: The murderer, the murder weapon, the date and time. Everything but the victim…

Nadie me mata is a work that, from the perspectives of humor, fantasy, and through the use of characteristics specific to crime fiction, approaches the strangeness of the 21st century man before his body, before the incomprehensible fact of being and before the incapacity to recognize one’s own identity.

Javier Azpeitia (Madrid, 1962) has published four novels: Mesalina (1989), Quevedo (1990), Hipnos (1996 – awarded the Hammett Prize for Crime Fiction and brought to the big screen by David Carreras) and Adriana en Naxos (2002). As a literary editor, he is the author of a thematic anthology of poems by Góngora, Lope and Quevedo (Baroque Poetry, 1996), an edition of La vida es sueño (1997), and of an anthology of Flos Sanctorum by Pedro de Ribadeneyra (Vidas de santos, 2000). His works have been translated into French, Greek, and Russian.