Among strange victims
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Daniel Saldaña París ; translated by Christina MacSweeney
Contributors: MacSweeney, Christina, translator
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781566894302
Work titles: En medio de extrañas víctimas
Description: "His tools are brilliant syntax, the ability to achieve highly powerful, recurrent images, a set of relationships between the plot strands that are more than a forced structure, and humor, a corrosive humor that never leads to laughter, but is present in every phrase of the book, charged with relentless sardonic irony."-FactorcriticoRodrigo likes his vacant lot, its resident chicken, and being left alone. But when passivity finds him accidentally married to Cecilia, he trades Mexico City for the sun-bleached desolation of his hometown and domestic life with Cecilia for the debauched company of a poet, a philosopher, and Micaela, whose allure includes the promise of time travel. Earthy, playful, and sly, Among Strange Victims is a psychedelic ode to the pleasures of not measuring--
Notes: Translation from Spanish of: En medio de extrañas víctimas.

"Originally published in Spanish as En medio de extrañas víctimas by Sexto Piso, Mexico, 2013."--Title page verso.