A fraction of the whole

A novel of ideas that doesn't leave aside the sweet obligation of telling a story, A Fraction of the Whole lovingly pokes fun at everything it sees in its eccentric and incredible journey.

Jasper Dean narrates his love-hate relationship with his father, Martin, a pessimistic misanthrope who decided to raise his son as a philosophical project. This story has a long history: it begins in Europe with his ancestors, passes through a small rural town and its observatory, a democratic criminal cooperative and a torrid passion in Paris, presents a labyrinthine residence in the depths of Australia, and culminates in the Thai jungles. But it is the characters' experiences that spice up the novel. Prisons, schools, mental hospitals, orphanages: nothing escapes the hilarious intellectual dissection carried out as a sport by father and son, whose projects to change the world always go awry in the most spectacular ways.