Juan José Millás García

"A senior executive is fired from his job and decides to reinvent himself, with imagination as his only guide. From then on, and with infinite sarcasm, he approaches every mundane fact of life as if it were a fantastic adventure. The protagonist of Millás's novel creates his own world, inhabiting it sometimes as himself and sometimes in the guise of other personas who behave with the insolence and conviction born of the most well-reasoned insanity....

"Laid off from his job, Damián Lobo obsessively imagines himself as a celebrity being interviewed on TV. After committing an act of petty theft at an antiques market, he finds himself trapped inside a wardrobe and delivered to the seemingly idyllic home of a husband, wife, and their internet-addicted teenage daughter. There, he sneaks from the shadows to serve as an invisible butler, becoming deeply and disastrously involved with his unknowing host...