Cover of Joan Prats Book Cover to be Chosen on Facebook

Cover of Joan Prats Book Cover to be Chosen on Facebook
Santo Domingo, 26/10/2010

¨The Middle Finger of Reality Greets Me,” Joan Prats first novel will be published in November by Punto de Lectura from the Santillana Group. At this moment, there are three possible choices for the book cover now on Facebook, to be voted on in an open election by anyone who has an FB account. To get in on the voting for Prats’s book cover, go to “El dedo mayor de la realidad me saluda” and chose which one you like the best.

“El dedo mayor de la realidad me saluda” and chose which one you like the best.

A note from the publisher explains that “to find the image that will be the chosen for the cover, we’re inviting various illustrators and designers who have put their creative talent together with their artistic skills and capacity to unite ideas for proposals. We will choose three finalists and our friends on FB will make the final choice between them.”

SUMMARY. It is the last year of the 20th century, young Dominican David Ferrer, narrator and main character of the novel, is going through an existential crisis (work and career) in Barcelona where he has gone to supposedly study advertising. However, he spends a lot of time walking around the city streets, watching the passersby and experiencing strange episodes of delirium and hallucination while trying to write a novel of which he has only written a few lines. When the day ends, he takes refuge in his apartment, an oasis of videogames and pop culture which he shares with his roommate Origami. David never suspects how the meeting with an old friend from Santo Domingo will force him to reconsider his lifestyle and determine what is real and what is a product of his imagination.

BIOGRAPHY. Joan Prats (Santo Domingo, 1977) is a journalist, publicist and writer. He has a degree in Advertising Communication from UNIBE then went on to earn a Masters in Marketing at INTEC. He expanded his specialization by writing freelance articles at the London School of Journalism. He wrote comedy scripts for the Joso School of Comedians of Barcelona. He was the copywriter and creative force in various advertising agencies. Prats is currently part of the team of the Estilos Magazine of Diario Libre where he writes a column called “Spinoff.” “The Middle Finger of Reality Greets Me” is his first novel.