Back cover: Ángel Ros loves danger, the literature of Joyce, and the music of The Doors. During a summer in Barcelona, this young, aspiring writer falls for Ana, an eccentric South American woman, whom he follows like a shadow to the darkest depths into which her madness leads her. In their suicidal wanderings, this breathless couple will love each other, lose each other, gamble with their lives and the lives of others, terrorize and massacre absurdly in search of an improbable escape. How will Ana escape this descent into the depths of crime? Will Ángel manage to write his Joycean novel while the final notes of Jim Morrison's "The End" echo? This novel, written jointly by Roberto Bolaño and AG Porta in the early 1980s, foreshadows what part of their later work would unfold: playing with erudition, darkness, rage, humor and melancholy.
This article was modified on March 7, 2016