Marcelo

From the pen of the co-creator of Gomaespuma, an emotional tribute to the generation of Hispanic immigrants in the US. This is the novel by Marcelo Hernández, a bartender at one of the most legendary bars in the universe, the Oyster Bar in Gran Central Terminal, the famous railway station in New York. Thousands of souls have paraded through Marcelo's bar, located in a monumental building in the heart of the Big Apple, from the ephemeral tourist to great Wall Street executives and even artists like Andy Warhol. For Marcelo, the Oyster Bar had always been a haven of peace where for years he had stopped passing time while he made his celebrated cocktails. But one day his destiny intersects with that of Dylan, an arrogant millennial addicted to social networks who has been named his assistant against their will; and with that of Anna, a Spanish journalist who wants to write about Marcelo's life. These two encounters will change his life forever. With a captivating prose, Guillermo Fesser immerses us with his novel in the New York microcosm and in the history of this real character: his childhood in Ecuador; his subsequent immigration to the United States and the years of hard work, the disagreement and reunion with Karen, his lost love; and finding a family he didn't even know he had. Marcelo is a song to a simple and humble world that is leaving us; an emotional tribute to the generation of Hispanic immigrants who built the restaurant business in the US; and a fascinating review of the social changes experienced, since the late 1960s, in that effervescent place we have come to call Manhattan.