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The killing of a young girl in a small Mexican village ignites a powder-trail of gossip that erupts in further violence, in this suspenseful tale from the writer of the acclaimed movie Amores Perros.Early one morning in a deserted field, Ramon Castanos is confronted with the dead body of Adela, a lovely young girl whom he had only admired from afar. But his concern for her fate is so evident that within an hour of the bloody discovery, rumour of the death of Ramon Castanos' girlfriend has spread to every corner of Loma Grande. The villagers, thirsty for revenge, cast about for a suspect or scapegoat, and hit upon the nomadic Jose Echeverri-Berriozabal, known as 'The Gypsy'. Honour then demands that Ramon prove his manhood and avenge the unhappy Adela; Ramon realises that he must now live out his imaginary past as a brutal reality. Here as in Amores Perros, Guillermo Arriaga spins a tale of deception, passion, and violence, expertly interweaving story-lines and characters, and fusing tragedy with dark humour. The result is a compulsive work from one of the finest writers to emerge from Mexico in recent years.
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Ram n, a young shopkeeper, was first on the scene when the nude body of a teenage girl is discovered in the Mexican village of Loma Grande. Whilst covering her with his shirt, he recognises the murdered girl as Adela, the daughter of 'newcomers' brought in to work land expropriated from drug dealers. Although Ram n had only spoken briefly to Adela, word quickly spreads that she was his girlfriend and the local delegate bribes the police to stay away. Then suspicion unjustly falls on an itinerant trader, 'The Gypsy', after a man brags about seeing him making love to Adela when in truth it was with another villager's wife. There is a tragic ending to this absorbing, tightly focused story by an internationally acclaimed Mexican writer.
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Guillermo Arriaga es un escritor mexicano que ha alcanzado la fama mundial como guionista de la pelicula Amores perros, de gran exito internacional, y de las peliculas 21 Gramos, Las tres muertes de Melquiades Estrada, y Babel. Arriaga es tambien el autor de las novelas: El Bufalo de la noche y Escuadron guillotina.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0571214169
- ISBN 13 9780571214167
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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