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Comemadre
Author: Roque Larraquy
Narrator: Rick Perez
Unabridged: 4 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Everand Productions
Published: 05/11/2021
Category: Fiction - Hispanic & Latino
Synopsis
On the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1907, Doctor Quintana pines for head nurse Menendez while he and his colleagues embark on a grisly series of experiments to investigate the line between life and death. One hundred years later, a celebrated artist goes to extremes in search of aesthetic transformation, turning himself into an art object. How far are we willing to go, Larraquy asks, in pursuit of transcendence? The world of Comemadre is full of vulgarity, excess, and farce: strange ants that form almost perfect circles, missing body parts, obsessive love affairs, and flesh-eating plants. Here the monstrous is not alien, but the consequence of our relentless pursuit of collective and personal progress.