Mala onda

Bad Vibes

Author	Alberto Fuguet
Original title	Mala onda
Translator	Kristina Cordero
Country	Chile
Language	Spanish
Genre	Bildungsroman
Publisher	Planeta (1992) St. Martin's Press (1997 English translation)
Publication date	November 1991
Published in English	April 1997
Media type	Print
Pages	308 (1997 St. Martin's Press translation)
ISBN	978-0-312-15059-4
OCLC	35657888
Dewey Decimal	863.20
LC Class	PQ8098.16.U48 M313 1997
Followed by	Tinta roja

Mala onda (English: Bad Vibes) is a bildungsroman novel and social commentary by Alberto Fuguet. It is also Fuguet's debut novel, first published in 1991.

Mala onda is set in Chile during a ten-day period in late 1980, around the time of the Chilean constitutional referendum. The protagonist is Matías Vicuña, a maladjusted, upper class, 17-year-old boy who is jaded and frustrated by what he perceives as the folly and blandness of his family and peers.

The novel examines the Chilean emulation of North American consumerism, in the context of a growing opposition to the dictatorial rule of Augusto Pinochet in Chile.

See also

• The Catcher in the Rye
• Holden Caulfield

External links

• Bad Vibes in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Mala onda in libraries (WorldCat catalog)