The novel begins when Arturo attends his father's funeral. Although the family and friends mourn the deceased, the protagonist can not feel sorry for that death, and that guilt will eventually lead to the same vice that killed his father. His life will become a slow labyrinth in whose center rests the threatening beast of alcohol, from which he seeks to flee, but to whose claws he returns for lack of will, for the moral wound that stings him. He will roam the bars of Oaxaca, through the streets and parks of Mexico City, will travel by roads and dirt roads to lose sight of what torments him: the belief that he is the true culprit of the death of his father. Hallucinations, premonitory dreams, ill-fated memories, devastating feelings. This novel narrates the fall of a man who is caught in alcoholism, and leads us through a calvary that is woven little by little, in every swallow and every bad decision, in every night of insomnia and every pit of despair that Arturo tries to palliate with more alcohol -- Publisher website.
La novela empieza cuando Arturo asiste al entierro de su padre. Aunque la familia y los amigos lloran al difunto, el protagonista no consigue sentir pena por esa muerte, y esa culpa terminará por conducirlo al mismo vicio que mató a su padre. Su vida se volverá un lento laberinto en cuyo centro reposa la amenazante bestia del alcohol, de la que busca huir, pero a cuyas garras regresa por falta de voluntad, por la herida moral que lo atosiga. Rondará por los bares de Oaxaca, por las calles y parques de la Ciudad de México, viajará por carreteras y caminos de terracería para perder de vista aquello que lo atormenta: la creencia de que él es el verdadero culpable de la muerte de su padre. Alucinaciones, sueños premonitorios, recuerdos aciagos, sentimientos desoladores. Esta novela narra la caída de un hombre que se ve atrapado en el alcoholismo, y nos conduce a través de un calvario que se teje poco a poco, en cada trago y cada mala decisión, en cada noche de insomnio y cada pozo de desesperación que Arturo intenta paliar con más alcohol -- Sitio web del editor.
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