A classic of Mexican literature in the twentieth century, The Hole is a dazzlingly devastating novella
Set in a Mexican prison in the late 1960s, The Hole follows three inmates as they plot to sneak in drugs under the noses of their ape-like guards. The inmates desperately need to secure their next fix, and hatch a plan that involves convincing one of their mothers to bring the drugs into the prison, inside her person. But everything about their plan is doomed from the beginning, doomed to end in violence…
Unfolding in a single paragraph, The Hole is a verbal torrent, a prison inside a prison, and an ominous parable about how deformed and wretched institutions create even more deformed and wretched individuals.
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A propos de l’auteur
Álvaro Enrigue was born in Mexico in 1969. He is an essayist, critic, professor, and the author of several novels and short story collections. His first novel La muerte de un instalador won the 1996 Joaquín Mortiz Prize. In 2007, the “Bogotá39” project named him one of the most promising Latin American writers of his generation.
Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 80 ● ISBN 9780811227797 ● Taille du fichier 0.9 MB ● Traducteur Amanda Hopkinson & Sophie Hughes ● Maison d’édition New Directions ● Pays US ● Publié 2018 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 7470075 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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