Comemadre

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ComemadreRoque LarraquyPublisher: Coffee House PressJuly 10 2018EAN: 9781566895156ISBN: 1566895154Items marked as WAREHOUSE may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.Synopsis: Literary Latin American Flatliners: a smart, engrossing, and darkly funny novel experimenting with where life and love begin and end. On the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1907, Doctor Quintana pines for head nurse Menéeacute;ndez while he and his colleagues embark on a grisly series of experiments to investigate the line 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 farce: strange ants that form almost perfect circles, missing body parts, obsessive love affairs, and flesh-eating plants. Here the monstrous is not alien, but the consequence of our relentless pursuit of collective and personal progress. Show more