Tick-Tock

<p>‘Possibly the most impressive novel ever written in the Galician language’. With these words the eminent critic Basilio Losada describes Suso de Toro’s novel <em>Tick-Tock</em> in a letter to the author. Suso de Toro is alternative in everything he does he rearranges the boundaries surprises the reader does the unexpected persons tenses change and what could be construed as an atheistic chaotic novel acquires hints of religiosity. Nano the narrator is a man of uncertain age who has never made it in the world but who likes to hold forth all the same to fill notebooks with his thoughts on fishing in the Gran Sol on controlling his libido on inventing machines that serve no purpose. The novel centres on his experiences and on the lives of those around him: his mother his father and half-brother the people who occupy the building where his mother cleans. <em>Tick-Tock</em> a sequel to <em>Polaroid</em> received the Spanish Critics’ Prize for its unconventionality and narrative expertise and is the author’s most popular work.</p>