Mala onda Author:Alberto Fuguet "Mala onda" is a pitiful chronicle of a trip through the excesses of cocaine, sex, marihuana, and al alcohol against a backdrop of cynicism, pain and numdness. Matias Vicuna is a member of the elite in 1980s Chile, who gets sick of the political situation at the same time as he tries to find himself. He is a Latin-American Holden Caulfield,... more » as alineated, bored and payhetic as Salinger's famous character, tired of the hypocrisy and moral decay he sees all around him.« less