Caballos salvajes

Jordi Cussà errupted onto the Catalan literary scene with Wild Horses (2000). This cult novel surprised critics and readers alike with its true portrayal of life on the margins - addiction to hard drugs - a somewhat neglected theme among Catalan writers, and for its innovative language and style. The novel uses many voices to tell of the adventures and misadventures of a group of friends entangled in dealing and taking heroine and other drugs in Catalonia during the eighties and nineties. It is a disturbing story, agile and poetic, about a "generation of losers", in the words of its main character. This is a generation that veered between ecstasy and the inferno until addiction, or AIDS, cut short their lives and, in Jordi Cussà, one of the survivors, found its best possible story teller.