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In un parco alla periferia dell’Avana viene scoperto il cadavere di un giovane travestito, Alexis Arayán, strangolato con la cintura di seta della sua vestaglia rossa. Le indagini sull’omicidio vengono affidate al tenente Mario Conde, per l’occasione liberato dal lavoro d’ufficio cui lo avevano relegato le sue intemperanze. Seguendo le tracce dell’assassino, il poliziotto si trova immerso nell’ambiente ambiguo in cui si svolgeva la vita segreta di Arayán, un labirinto di trappole dominato dal travestimento e dalle maschere, in cui realtà e apparenza si confondono e si rispecchia l’intera società cubana con tutte le sue contraddizioni. Conde affronta questo viaggio allucinante insieme ad Alberto Marqués, vecchio artista omosessuale che ha sofferto sulla propria pelle la stretta del moralismo di Stato. La forte personalità e l’ironia raffi nata di Alberto dissolvono i pregiudizi del tenente e lo accompagnano, passo dopo passo, fino alla soluzione del caso.

Now available in paperback, the editors of this book are internationally known in the field of literary translation and translation studies - particularly as promoters of the view that translation as a creative practice rather than a mechanical process.

A young Catalan woman, inspired by a persecuted writer, ventures into the jungles of Colombia, where her familiar world collapses. Isolated in a region plagued by relentless rain, she begins to see the ominous signs of a devastating war reflected in her lover and the people around her. The narrative oscillates between intimacy and horror as she witnesses a hell that forces her to abandon everything except her reinvented language, her only refuge to articulate the myriad faces of death she encounters. The author, based in Barcelona, infuses the story with an alien sensibility and a lush, invented language, creating a paranoid fever dream reminiscent of the works of Rulfo, Fanon, and Lispector, all through the perspective of a doomed outsider. The portrayal of Colombia's Pacific coast is vivid, capturing an indifferent sea, relentless rains, and a jungle teeming with danger. A traumatic forced evacuation near the end deepens the narrative, presenting a grimly poetic account of a South American heart of darkness. This revelatory tale is likened to the testimony of a shell-shocked survivor, offering a brilliant depiction of the horrors of drug cultivation. Recommended for those interested in Latin American culture, it combines intelligence with critical insight.

To many, Juan Goytisolo is Spain's greatest living novelist and her sternest critic. An exile from his native land for over forty years (he left Madrid in 1957 to escape Franco's regime), he has mercilessly sought to overturn Spain's Catholic homogeneity by remembering the cultural influence of her medieval and Jewish populations. Few European writers know the Islamic shores of the Mediterranean as intimately as he does. In these essays about Morocco, Turkey, and Egypt, Goytisolo celebrates a world where ritual matters and tradition is alive, where saints live, story-tellers weave their enchantments nightly, and where honor and dignity preserve the importance of the individual. Goytisolo is to Spanish writing what Almodovar is to Spanish cinema. These essays are a fine reading of the vast, heterogeneous mosaic of Islam against the everyday truculent images of the mass media. "A deliciously pretentious aesthete, Goytisolo unashamedly romanticizes popular Islamic life in beguiling, immensely readable, poetic prose."-Publishers Weekly