| Comemadre Contributor(s): Larraquy, Roque (Author), Cleary, Heather (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1566895154 ISBN-13: 9781566895156 Publisher: Coffee House Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Absurdist - Fiction | Hispanic & Latino - Fiction | Humorous - Black Humor |
| Dewey: 863.7 |
| LCCN: 2017056244 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 7.8" (0.3 lbs) 152 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Latino |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1907, a doctor becomes involved in a misguided experiment that investigates the threshold between life and death. One hundred years later, a celebrated artist goes to extremes in search of aesthetic transformation, turning himself into an art object. How far are we willing to go, Larraquy asks, in pursuit of transcendence? The world of Comemadre is full of vulgarity, excess, and discomfort: strange ants that form almost perfect circles, missing body parts, obsessive love affairs, and man-eating plants. Darkly funny, smart, and engrossing, here the monstrous is not alien, but the consquence of our relentless pursuit of collective and personal progress. |