Jonas and the Pink Whale

What to do if you are hit by a terrible existential crisis? There is no right answer, but the hero of this novel, a simple teacher Jonas, married to the daughter of a wealthy entrepreneur, is ready to go to... any lengths. Firstly, he seduces the beautiful sister of his long-ago boring wife. Secondly, he is not afraid to fill his pockets with dirty money from the drug mafia. No, Jonas does not aspire to success; he enjoys quietly teaching and doing photography in his own studio, but an inexplicable anxiety drives him into the very whirlpool of events, into the jaws of the merciless whale of sociality.

The novel by Montesa, full of humor and erotica, is one of the most popular works of Latin American literature. It is a sparkling adventurous story about how precisely not to act when it’s time to figure things out within oneself.