La Drag Asesina

In this sequel to Contra el viento del norte, nearly a year has passed since Emmi and Leo fell madly in love through email when Leo returns to Boston to find news of her. Both recognize their feelings for each other haven’t changed and consider meeting in person for the first time. But Leo has just started a new relationship and Emmi is still married. Leo and Emmi show us all that after the sixth wave breaks against the shore, a seventh wave always comes, this one, full of surprises.

JORNADA PRIMERA Escena primera Un camino. A lo lejos, el verde y oloroso cementerio de una aldea. Es de noche, y la Luna naciente brilla entre los cipreses. Don Juan Manuel Montenegro, que vuelve borracho de la feria, cruza por el camino, jinete en un potro que se muestra inquieto y no acostumbrado a la silla. El hidalgo, que se tambalea de borrén a borrén, le gobierna sin cordura, y tan pronto le castiga con la espuela como le recoge las riendas. Cuando el caballo se encabrita, luce una gran destreza y reniega como un condenado.

In a large city in the north of Africa, a public functionary, chief of the rodent extermination department, fights against the millions of rats that threaten the city. Solitary, obsessive, and so sensitive it borders on paranoia, he devotes himself to his job in exemplary fashion. His life passes by under an extreme order; he does not leave anything to chance, and has the compulsive habit of writing down all his intimate reflections and secrets on small pieces of paper. This bitingly funny novel was a piercing critique on the author's part of a government suspicious of even the slightest hint ...

Esa novela es un sumario existencial de la personalidad de Antonio López de Santa Anna, el caudillo mexicano más controvertido del siglo XIX.