Albina and the dog-men
Subtitle: a fantastical novel
By: Alejandro Jodorowsky ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam ; with illustrations by François Boucq
Contributors: Mac Adam, Alfred J., 1941- translator; Boucq, illustrator
Publisher: Restless Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781632060549
Subjects: Women; Amnesiacs; Albinos and albinism; Fiction
Work titles: Albina y los hombres-perro
Description: A darkly funny, surreal novel set in Chile and Peru, Albina and the Dog-Men is Alejandro Jodorowsky's sprawling modern myth in which sexual desire appears as a dangerous and generative force that mutates and transforms, unraveling identities and rending the social and moral fabric of a small town. Written with the stunning vision and cinematic flair he brought to his cult 1970s psychedelic freak-out films El Topo and The Holy Mountain, Jodorowsky turns the classic stranger-comes-to-town narrative on its head in his novel Albina and the Dog-Men. When two women--a beautiful amnesiac albino giantess and her protector, a leather-tough woman called Crabby--arrive in this South American desert town, Albina's otherworldly allure and unfettered sensuality turns men into wild animals. Chased at the same time by a clubfoot criminal, Albina and Crabby must fend off their aggressors before the town consumes itself in an orgy of lust and violence.
Notes: Translation from the Spanish of: Albina y los hombres-perro.