The secret life of insects
Esquinca, Bernardo, 1972-2024
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A forensic entomologist tries to solve the inexplicable murder of his wife, who impossibly seems to have been killed in a forest at the same time she was asleep in bed with him. A husband becomes concerned by his wife's strange behaviour, which includes sleepwalking, muttering strange phrases, and a bizarre erotic fascination with octopi. A woman visits a witch doctor who promises to forge an unbreakable bond between her and the man of her dreams, but things go horribly awry after the man dies. And four high school friends reunite twenty years later at a class reunion and must face the long-buried truth of a demonic experience from their youth. The history of Mexico is drenched in blood, from the sacrifices of the ancient Aztecs to the bloodthirsty conquest of the Spanish to modern-day violent crime, and that legacy of violence and death pervades these stories.
Main title:
The secret life of insects / Bernardo Esquinca ; translated by James D. Jenkins.
Author:
Esquinca, Bernardo, 1972-, authorJenkins, James D., translator
Imprint:
Liverpool : New Ruins, 2024.
Collation:
208 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Spanish.
ISBN:
9781838171643 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
863.7
Language:
EnglishSpanish
BRN:
2696329
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