by Juan Villoro · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420480930
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«El disparo de argón» is the novel by Mexican writer Juan Villoro, published by Alfaguara in paperback (340 pages, in Spanish).
The plot links the gaze and the city in Dr. Suárez's eye clinic, a space for visual health in a Mexico where organ trafficking is part of the informal economy. When Dr. Suárez disappears, his disciple Fernando Balmes sets out to find him through a city of shadows, esoteric signs and a woman who alters the gaze.
The novel was originally published in 1991 and is set in Mexico City; ophthalmology and chance are central to the story.
A read for those interested in contemporary Mexican fiction and urban plots with intrigue and a medical backdrop.
Juan Antonio Villoro Ruiz is a Mexican writer and journalist and the son of philosopher Luis Villoro. He has been well known among intellectual circles in Mexico, Latin America and Spain for years, but his success among a wider readership has grown since receiving the Herralde Prize for his novel El testigo.
