ISBN: 0861541286 9780861541287

Category: Fiction / General

Page count: 208

<p> </p> <p>'Monumental, funny, potent, and fresh' Carlos Fonseca, author of Natural History</p> <p>Antonio is living a double life - and doing a pretty good job of it. By day he's Antonio, mild-mannered database analyst, recent divorcé and father of two. In private, however, he spends hours on seedy pick-up websites or combing fiction and film for the solutions to his problems.</p> <p>And then, Antonio's sister goes missing. </p> <p>Her disappearance forces Antonio to confront not only his own troubled past, but his mother's decision to leave Colombia with two young children in tow, his ex-wife's obsessive, unhappy relationship with her homeland and, ultimately, the reason for his sister's despair. </p> <p>Propulsive and freewheeling, bold and hilarious, Mauro Javier Cárdenas' second novel is a daring examination of identity in a world that seems determined to fragment us. </p>