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"Jorge Comensal's The Mutations oscillates masterfully between comedy and tragedy, gathering up in its pages a stupendous panoply of characters before whom the reader is never sure whether to smile in sympathy or pity."--Fernando Aramburu, author of Homeland Ram n Martinez is a militant atheist, successful lawyer, and conventional family man. But all of that changes when cancer of the tongue deprives him of the source of his power and livelihood: speech. The Mutations, by Jorge Comensal, is a comedy tracing the metastasis of Ram n's cancer through his body and in the lives of his family members, colleagues, and doctors, dissecting the experience of illness and mapping the relationships both strengthened and frayed by its wake. Mateo and Paulina, his teenage children, struggle with the temptations of masturbation and binge eating, respectively. Ram n's melancholic oncologist is haunted by the memory of a young patient whom he was unable to save. His selfish pathologist believes Ram n's tumor holds the key to a major scientific breakthrough. And then there's Elodia, Ram n's pious maid, who brings him a foulmouthed parrot as a birthday gift. This lewd bird becomes Ram n's companion, confidant, and unlikely double. Paying homage to the works of forebears such as Sontag, Didion, Flaubert, and Tolstoy, and filled with a rough-hewn poetry of regret, rage, and finally resignation, The Mutations offers a profound but funny cross section of modern Mexican life, as well as a bold treatment of an unspeakable yet universal reality

"Jorge Comensal's The Mutations oscillates masterfully between comedy and tragedy, gathering up in its pages a stupendous panoply of characters before whom the reader is never sure whether to smile in sympathy or pity."--Fernando Aramburu, author of Homeland Ram n Martinez is a militant atheist, successful lawyer, and conventional family man. But all of that changes when cancer of the tongue deprives him of the source of his power and livelihood: speech. The Mutations, by Jorge Comensal, is a comedy tracing the metastasis of Ram n's cancer through his body and in the lives of his family members, colleagues, and doctors, dissecting the experience of illness and mapping the relationships both strengthened and frayed by its wake. Mateo and Paulina, his teenage children, struggle with the temptations of masturbation and binge eating, respectively. Ram n's melancholic oncologist is haunted by the memory of a young patient whom he was unable to save. His selfish pathologist believes Ram n's tumor holds the key to a major scientific breakthrough. And then there's Elodia, Ram n's pious maid, who brings him a foulmouthed parrot as a birthday gift. This lewd bird becomes Ram n's companion, confidant, and unlikely double. Paying homage to the works of forebears such as Sontag, Didion, Flaubert, and Tolstoy, and filled with a rough-hewn poetry of regret, rage, and finally resignation, The Mutations offers a profound but funny cross section of modern Mexican life, as well as a bold treatment of an unspeakable yet universal reality

Una novela de misterio y zoolog a, de adicciones y crisis familiares, de fantasmas, crisis clim tica, agujeros negros y masculinidad desorientada. El 28 de mayo de 2029, durante una ola de calor, las llamas consumen el Bosque de Chapultepec, el parque donde se encuentra el Pante n Dolores y el zool gico de la ciudad. No parece haber sido un accidente: el fuego comenz con la hoguera de un hombre vestido de sacerdote en la fosa com n del cementerio. En el incendio mueren casi todos los rboles del parque y los animales del zool gico. A partir de ah , la historia de Rebeca y Karina se cruza con la de Silverio, vigilante del pante n y padre de la precoz activista clim tica y ecol gica, Daenerys. Estos personajes emprenden caminos de reinvenci n que pasan por resolver varios enigmas: qui n era el sacerdote quemado en el Pante n, c mo consigui Rebeca la botella de brandy con la que se embriag , qu les pas a los padres de Karina hace 18 a os, c mo se aparean los tiburones, qu ser del huevo de em que se salv del fuego y m s. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A mystery novel about zoology, addiction, and family crises, about ghosts, the climate crisis, black holes, and disoriented masculinity. On May 28, 2029, during a heat wave, flames consume the Bosque de Chapultepec, the park where the Pante n de Dolores and the city zoo are located. It doesn't look like it was accidental --the blaze spread from the pyre lit by a man dressed as a priest in the cemetery's mass grave. Almost all trees and animals in the park perish in the fire. From then on, Rebeca and Karina's story intersects with Silverio's, caretaker at the cemetery and father of Daenerys, a precocious climate and environmental activist. These characters set out on journeys of reinvention that come to be after solving several enigmas: who was the priest burned at the Pante n? How did Rebeca get the bottle of brandy with which she got drunk? What happened to Karina's parents 18 years ago? How do sharks mate? What will happen to the emu egg that survived the fire? And more.

Mutationerne - Roman. Jorge Comensal. Mutationerne svinger mesterligt mellem komedie og tragedie, og man møder som læser en fantastisk samling personer, som man aldrig ved om man skal more sig over eller føle medlidenhed med. Det umulige - eller i hvert fald usædvanlige - lykkes for Jorge Comensal, nemlig at fortælle en humoristisk historie om en kræftsygdom og hvad den gør ved de berørte. Det er vedkommende og dybfølt, og det er hylende morsomt.