by Miguel Gutiérrez · Punto de Lectura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9786034520110
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Wences, a man on the verge of old age, decides to write his 'Memoirs' about the only event that mattered in his life: his love for Xóchitl, his sister, who passed away after a plague that devastated Piura when she was entering puberty. Truthful, raw, and modest at the same time, the 'memorialist' evokes the origins, foundations, and culmination of a love relationship that crystallized within a ruined landowning family and refers to the decline of a specific seigneurial order. Loaded with transgressions, fantasies, and profanatory eroticism, and scenes that exude irony and humor, this is a novel of love, of recovery of states of beatitude and debauchery, of initiation, of loss, and of learning about pain. On a deeper level, the novel narrates the search for absolute love, an ideal that, according to the protagonist, only siblings can achieve.
