Lerena Dost is a
dominant and successful woman until she and her psychoanalyst Suano Botilecue cross
an ethical boundary and are disgraced, after their sexual relationship is made
known. Both lose everything.
Then, a chance encounter with a mysterious
woman in an elevator plants a number in Lerena’s mind, which she plays in the
lottery and wins. She decides that she will not touch her new fortune
until she can reward her benefactor, who turns out to be none other than Dona
Munava, the famed leader of a spiritual cult hidden away in the countryside far
from the city.
Lerena and Suano set out on a road
trip to find her, travelling across the Panoramic Delta, a futuristic world
strangely like our own, but with its details, its settings, and even its
language altered in unexpected ways.
The author’s musical and inventive style,
brilliantly translated by Chris Andrews, creates a hallucinatory atmosphere, in
which the one-time lovers relive their relationship, and confront its
consequences.
‘A fundamental name in Argentinian literature of the last two decades.’ — Fernando Bogado, Radar
