Let No One Sleep

An odyssey of operatic proportions, featuring an obsession-fueled taxi driverAfter Luca loses her job at an IT firm, she has a vision of her future career as a taxi driver, brought on by the intoxicating opera floating through her apartments air vent. She obtains her taxi license and meets the neighbor responsible for the music. Calaf is the mans name, which also happens to be the name of the character in Puccinis Turandot and the bird Luca received on her tenth birthday from her long-since-dead mother. When he moves out of her building, Luca becomes obsessed, driving through Madrid and searching for him on every corner, meeting intriguing people along the way. What follows is a phantasmagoria of coincidence, betrayal, and revenge, featuring Millss singular dark humor.Let No One Sleep is a delirious novel in which the mundane and extraordinary collide, art revives and devastates, and identity is unhinged by the treacherous forces of contemporary society.Juan Jos Mills is the recipient of Spains most prestigious literary prizes: the Premio Nadal, Premio Planeta, and Premio Nacional de Narrativa. He is the author of several short story collections and works of nonfiction as well as over a dozen novels, including two published in North America: From the Shadows and Let No One Sleep. He lives in Madrid.