Jordi Cussà errupted onto the Catalan literary scene with Wild Horses (2000). This cult novel surprised critics and readers alike with its true portrayal of life on the margins - addiction to hard drugs - a somewhat neglected theme among Catalan writers, and for its innovative language and style. The novel uses many voices to tell of the adventures and misadventures of a group of friends entangled in dealing and taking heroine and other drugs in Catalonia during the eighties and nineties. It is a disturbing story, agile and poetic, about a "generation of losers", in the words of its main character. This is a generation that veered between ecstasy and the inferno until addiction, or AIDS, cut short their lives and, in Jordi Cussà, one of the survivors, found its best possible story teller.