Overview
A modern-day Flaubert takes us on a comic tour through a deeply neurotic Mexico City
RamĆ³n Martinez is a militant atheist, successful lawyer, and conventional family man. But all of that changes when his privileged life disintegrates after cancer of the tongue deprives him of the source of his power and livelihood: speech.
Jorge Comensalās The Mutations is a comedy tracing the metastasis of RamĆ³nās cancer through his body and through the lives of his family members, colleagues, and doctors, dissecting the experience of illness and mapping the relationships both strengthened and frayed in its wake. Mateo and Paulina, his teenage children, struggle with the temptations of masturbation and binge-eating, respectively. RamĆ³nās melancholic oncologist is haunted by the memory of a young patient whom he was unable to save. His selfish pathologist believes RamĆ³nās tumor holds the key to a major scientific breakthrough. And then Elodia, RamĆ³nās pious maid, brings him a foul-mouthed parrot as a birthday gift, and this filthy bird becomes RamĆ³n's companion, confidant, and unlikely double.
Paying homage to forebears such as Sontag, Didion, Flaubert, and Tolstoy, and filled with a rough-hewn poetry of regret, rage, and, finally, resignation, The Mutations offers up a profound and funny cross section of modern Mexico, as well as a bold treatment of an unspeakable yet universal reality.
This book title, The Mutations (A Novel), ISBN: 9780374216535, by Jorge Comensal, Charlotte Whittle, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (November 12, 2019) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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