A dazzlingly inventive tale of demented explorers, impossible missions, traversing from the middle of the Gobi desert to the top of Mount Everest.
Amidst the scorching sand, a great prophet tells of a magical, eternal city to which the caravan will one day make its way. A replica has been built in the dunes. Its name: Edinburgh.
Elsewhere, a dying, cross-dressing pilot who fought a Ypres concocts a scheme to conquer Everest, somehow disappearing from the top of the mountain. And a colonel who swears on his life to make the trains in Zambezi run on time watches in horror as they are always, inevitably, ten minutes late.
Ignacio Padilla is one of Mexico's leading authors, and 'Antipodes' evokes the work of Southern America's great writers - Borges, Garcia Marquez and Carlos Fuentes. Based on history, legend and an awe-inspiring power of invention, 'Antipodes' delights, terrifies, and entrances.
These new myths leave us with the question: where is the end of the world?
