A Place Under the Sun

By Luis Urtueta

A Place Under the Sun is a visceral and sardonic novel about misplaced agonies and ambitions. Enrique Ureta, a Nabokovian Spanish young man, has moved to the Middle East to take a place under the sun of a well-paying, tier-1 management consulting firm. Introverted, immature, jumpy, distracted, judgmental – and naturally selfish and egotistic – his professional aspirations are thwarted by the increasing importance of acting out a confident, flashy persona. Impressions, no matter how hurried, carry weight. The firm even uses C.G. Jung’s inspired theses to classify its employees by personality types and it is the results-driven extroverts who shall prevail. The job is naturally intertwined with thoughts of wanting out, but its deranged lifestyle offers Enrique (aka Henry) a veil with which to cover troubled relationships and its pay a cushion to brace himself from his baby boomer parents, who are highly in debt and about to look to him for help.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Luis Urtueta
• Release date: Nov 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9798567557563

Luis Urtueta

In his debut novel, Luis Urtueta (Madrid, 1981) explores various themes ranging from the traits of expat life to the intrusiveness corporate cultures exercise in the life of the individual, and in particular examines how introverts can feel estranged from these environments.Luis has written a collection of short stories, Untitled Stories, and recently published his first novel, A Place Under the Sun.

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