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Agua Quemada / Burn Water
[Paperback - 2016]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Debolsillo | ISBN: 9786073144742 | Pages: 136
Shipping Weight: .113 | Dimensions: 4.94 x .38 x 7.43 inches

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La Ciudad de México -espacio mítico, ambiguo y luminoso- es el escenario del presente volumen y el protagonista velado de los cuatro relatos que lo conforman. Un pequeño parapléjico, un homosexual aristocrático, un anciano revolucionario y su nieto, un joven barriobajero que se emplea como sicario encubierto. Nadie es inocente, nadie puede fingir bondad, todas las cosas son corruptas o corruptoras.
Sus personajes transitan por espacios y momentos trágicos y festivos, como ellos mismos: un general nostálgico ante la revolución mexicana, cada vez más corrompida; una anciana olvidada y su oscura relación con un niño paralítico de las vecindades del centro; un solterón acaudalado que no alcanza a comprender la pobreza ni la desaparición del mito fundador de su status, y un lumpen que, mientras traba un combate con las palabras, termina como guardaespaldas de quien le ha causado tanto dolor... Todos ellos comparten el territorio doloroso, caótico y resentido de la ciudad.

La crítica ha opinado:

"... la vida en la ciudad de México, desde el estrato más bajo al más alto... hay belleza, pasión y genialidad aquí... " -Publishers Weekly -

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The characters in these four short stories appear in many of the other stories and their lives intertwine with one another. All compiled together pose the reader to question whether any of it is real or simply a mirage. Stories that examine "...life in Mexico City from the lowest strata to the highest...There is a beauty, passion and brilliance here..." -Publishers Weekly

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