The Iliac Crest
Cristina Rivera Garza
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
On a dark and stormy night, an unnamed narrator is visited by two women: one a former lover, the other a stranger. They ruthlessly question their host and claim to know his greatest secret: that he is, in fact, a woman. In increasingly desperate attempts to defend his masculinity, perplexed by the stranger's dubious claims to be the writer Amparo Dávila, he finds himself spiralling deeper into a haunted past that may or may not be his own.This surreal novel enfolds a masterful exploration of gender in taut, atmospheric mystery.
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identity, novel, Amparo Dávila, doppelgänger, literature in translation, La noche de Tlatelolco, madness, gender identity, institutionalisation, Mexican literature, Poniatowska, perceptions of reality, translation, Spanish, transgender, reality, Dávila, contemporary fiction, bodies, mental institution, mental health, literary fiction, gender fluidity, translated fiction, seduction, Mexico, Signs Preceding the End of the World, Herrera, Leonora