Life with my Widow is a game of mirrors where reality loses its contours as it comes in touch with the intangible and the non-existent comes to life in its very deathbed-a thriller as provocative and funny as it is disturbing and enigmatic. The main character, the husband of an indigenous Oaxaca shamaness, watches an identical man die. As the unknown man draws his last breath, the protagonist of this insightful narrative decides to switch identities. He wants to know what his wife and children will do once he is dead. What ...
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Life with my Widow is a game of mirrors where reality loses its contours as it comes in touch with the intangible and the non-existent comes to life in its very deathbed-a thriller as provocative and funny as it is disturbing and enigmatic. The main character, the husband of an indigenous Oaxaca shamaness, watches an identical man die. As the unknown man draws his last breath, the protagonist of this insightful narrative decides to switch identities. He wants to know what his wife and children will do once he is dead. What he fails to foresee is that he will also inherit the terrible commitments of the man whose identity he has adopted. Winner of the 2005 Mazatln Literature Prize, Life with my Widow confirms Jos Agustn as one of the greatest, most original and insightful voices in contemporary Mexican literature, an author in full command of his art.
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