Mil cosas (A Thousand Things)
Mil cosas (A Thousand Things) is a novel about a life entirely consumed by work, overpacked schedules, daily stress, fragmented attention, the sheer speed of things, and the small tragedies and great hardships to which metropolises condemn us. It is an accelerated novel about a dizzying, pressing existence, narrated like a thriller with a rising tension where everything feels as though it could explode at any moment.
Juan Tallón (Vilardevós, Ourense, 1975) holds a degree in Philosophy, though he has always made his living through journalism. He is the author of several books in Galician. In Spanish, he has published non-fiction works such as Libros peligrosos and Mientras haya bares, as well as the novels El váter de Onetti, Salvaje oeste, Fin de poema, Rewind, Obra maestra, and El mejor del mundo.
His most recent novel is Mil cosas.
This marks the first 2026 session of the collaborative activity "4 Readings, 4 Continents," a virtual book club organized by the Instituto Cervantes libraries in Chicago, Tetouan, Brussels, and Istanbul. This year’s program, "Modern Times," brings together four works that reflect social aspects of the current era. As in previous editions, it features a specialized moderator and a blog for discussing the novel and the author, culminating in an online encounter with the writer.
