Novel · 2020
Bajo el cielo rosa
Published 2020
In Epsilon, erasing memories is the only way to survive.
In the city of Epsilon, the state offers its citizens a unique service: erasing painful memories. But when the protagonist decides to undergo the process, he discovers that what is removed is not just the pain, but identity itself.
A dystopia about memory, identity and what remains when everything is erased. One of Antonio Romeo's most daring novels.
Short Stories · 2021
Modelo Standard de Acero y otros relatos
Published 2021
What would you do if your fear of loneliness pushed you to accept dinner with the colleague you can't stand?
A collection where the everyday twists until it embraces the most hilarious surrealism. Urban characters dragged along by inertia, conformism and alienation: men clinging to cheap wine to survive unbearable hosts, office workers fantasising about their own disappearance.
Cynical, direct and brutally honest about broken relationships and the tragicomedy of trying to fit into a cold world—impenetrable on the outside, yet hiding the erratic pulse of those who desperately just want not to be so alone.
Novel · 2017
Las luces de un avión
Published 2017
"There's nothing to fear, Rafa—they're just the lights of a plane."
At 36, Rafa's life has been reduced to kneading pizza dough, evading his past and trying not to lose his mind in a city that isn't his. His routine escape cracks when he meets Javier, who claims his strange limp is the result of a UFO sighting. What starts as a delirious anecdote drags Rafa towards a mysterious alien contact group and the enigmatic Elena.
Subjected to a dark initiation rite, Rafa's reality disintegrates completely. Trapped between amnesia, extreme paranoia and visions of impossible lights in the sky, he must piece together a puzzle marked by a French island on the satellite, suspicions of clones and a disappearance with no records. A suffocating journey to the limits of the mind and madness.
Novel · 2024
Los mejores supermercados
Published 2024
In the heart of Lisbon, O Patamar is an iconic bar on the verge of disappearing: Cristiano Ronaldo has acquired the building to turn it into a luxury hotel. A Spanish immigrant, whose life was transformed by a Bitcoin investment, decides to take matters into his own hands and writes a passionate letter to the Portuguese President.
What follows is an immersion into the daily life of the bar: a newly hair-transplanted vegan, a man who claims to be Spiderman, unbridled passion for Sporting CP. A novel where humour and irony intertwine with a critical look at modern Lisbon, sold to tourism, and the question of whether a place's charm can resist the onslaught of unchecked progress.
Novel · 2016
Montaña
Published 2016
A village split in two. Only two inhabitants remain. And a civil servant sent from the capital.
Pedro is sent as a civil servant to Churbe, a border village split in two. Only two inhabitants remain, one on each side. What should have been a bureaucratic formality becomes a journey into the absurd, into the secrets that places keep and the nature of the boundaries human beings impose on themselves.
Antonio Romeo's first novel. A fable about bureaucracy, territory and what remains when almost everything disappears.