Regresa uno de los escritores mexicanos ms talentosos y reconocidos de la actualidad con un libro de crnicas transgresor. Si, como dijo Alfonso Reyes, el ensayo es el centauro de los gneros, la crnica es un mestizo ms extico o salvaje: el grifo de la literatura. Este libro es una jaula sin barrotes donde merodean algunas de esas criaturas: la marchita eternidad de Acapulco y la vocacin de Mazatln como food court del alma; una temporada de rockstar en el desierto y un recuerdo del Mundial de Alemania 2006 robado por el autor a un examante de su novia; un hotel en Shanghi donde toca la banda de jazz ms antigua del mundo y la visita de la reina de Inglaterra al puerto de La Paz, Baja California Sur; el brutal asesinato de una adolescente chilena en la regin del Maule y un retrato a mano alzada del Fiscal de Hierro, persecutor de guerrilleros suicidas, homepatas marxistas y gavillas narcomatriarcales que protagoniz la lucha contra la delincuencia organizada en los aos setenta en Nuevo Laredo. Las ocho narraciones de este libro realizan una de las suertes mayores de la literatura: ir de lo ntimo a lo general, o viceversa. Tambin nos recuerdan que no hay promesas sin resaca. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Does Herbert write memoirs? Essays? Novels? His books, as life itself, are mashups of memories, research, and fictional ornamentation, marked by a cordial disrespect for genres." --The New York Times
One of the most talented and recognized Mexican writers of today returns with a transgressive book of chronicles. If, like Alfonso Reyes said, "The essay is the centaur of genres", then the chronicle would be a more exotic or wild half-breed: the griffin of literature. In that regard, this book is a cage without bars where some of those creatures roam: from the withered eternity of Acapulco and the calling of Mazatln as a food court for the soul; to rockstar for a season in the desert and a stolen souvenir of the 2006 World Cup in Germany that the author took from an ex-lover of his girlfriend; from a hotel in Shanghai where the oldest jazz band in the world plays and the visit of the Queen of England to La Paz, Baja California Sur; to the brutal murder of a Chilean teenager in the Maule Region and a freehand portrait of El Fiscal de Hierro, a persecutor of suicide guerrilla fighters, Marxist homeopaths and narco-matriarchal gangs, the man who led the fight against organized crime in the seventies in Nuevo Laredo. The eight narratives of this book produce a fortunate attempt in literature: going from the intimate to the general and vice versa. They also remind us that there are no promises without a hangover.
Regresa uno de los escritores mexicanos ms talentosos y reconocidos de la actualidad con un libro de crnicas transgresor. Si, como dijo Alfonso Reyes, el ensayo es el centauro de los gneros, la crnica es un mestizo ms extico o salvaje: el grifo de la literatura. Este libro es una jaula sin barrotes donde merodean algunas de esas criaturas: la marchita eternidad de Acapulco y la vocacin de Mazatln como food court del alma; una temporada de rockstar en el desierto y un recuerdo del Mundial de Alemania 2006 robado por el autor a un examante de su novia; un hotel en Shanghi donde toca la banda de jazz ms antigua del mundo y la visita de la reina de Inglaterra al puerto de La Paz, Baja California Sur; el brutal asesinato de una adolescente chilena en la regin del Maule y un retrato a mano alzada del Fiscal de Hierro, persecutor de guerrilleros suicidas, homepatas marxistas y gavillas narcomatriarcales que protagoniz la lucha contra la delincuencia organizada en los aos setenta en Nuevo Laredo. Las ocho narraciones de este libro realizan una de las suertes mayores de la literatura: ir de lo ntimo a lo general, o viceversa. Tambin nos recuerdan que no hay promesas sin resaca. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Does Herbert write memoirs? Essays? Novels? His books, as life itself, are mashups of memories, research, and fictional ornamentation, marked by a cordial disrespect for genres." --The New York Times
One of the most talented and recognized Mexican writers of today returns with a transgressive book of chronicles. If, like Alfonso Reyes said, "The essay is the centaur of genres", then the chronicle would be a more exotic or wild half-breed: the griffin of literature. In that regard, this book is a cage without bars where some of those creatures roam: from the withered eternity of Acapulco and the calling of Mazatln as a food court for the soul; to rockstar for a season in the desert and a stolen souvenir of the 2006 World Cup in Germany that the author took from an ex-lover of his girlfriend; from a hotel in Shanghai where the oldest jazz band in the world plays and the visit of the Queen of England to La Paz, Baja California Sur; to the brutal murder of a Chilean teenager in the Maule Region and a freehand portrait of El Fiscal de Hierro, a persecutor of suicide guerrilla fighters, Marxist homeopaths and narco-matriarchal gangs, the man who led the fight against organized crime in the seventies in Nuevo Laredo. The eight narratives of this book produce a fortunate attempt in literature: going from the intimate to the general and vice versa. They also remind us that there are no promises without a hangover.
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