: Despite being a "terrorist" in Paris, a prisoner in Portugal, or witnessing the first man step onto the moon face-down, Jaime remains a largely indifferent observer who "lives much but learns little". Literary Style and Themes Los años extraordinarios / The Extraordinary Years

(2021) is the acclaimed second novel by Spanish filmmaker and author Rodrigo Cortés . Available as an eBook from retailers like Amazon and PocketBook , the work is a surreal, picaresque journey through an alternate 20th century. Plot and Setting

: Characters drive cars powered by thought and encounter submarines that travel through underground tunnels.

The novel is presented as the memoirs of , born in 1902 in a version of Salamanca that (eventually) has a sea. Over 70 years, Jaime travels the globe, encountering a world governed by "the logic of the absurd":

: Spain alternates between monarchy and republic every 30 years by consensus, and Alicante once fought a war against the rest of Spain.