La Torre Y El Jardn, Paperback

Two men wake up in a cell to a surprising brothel. One man is dressed as an astronaut while the other has decided to clarify a childhood memory loss that involved the legendary Lady Isabella by pretending to blow magic at ever debacle inside the cell. Though, how do you solve a mystery inside a building with voices coming out of the walls? Where people can pass through to different dimensions? Where people can time travel? In La torre y el jard n, Alberto Chimal adds his own form of science fiction and fantasy to the mix, creating one of the most ambitious novels of recent Latin American fiction.

Dos hombres despiertan en celdas contiguas de un sorprendente burdel. Uno viste como astronauta, el otro ha decidido aclarar un siniestro recuerdo infantil que involucra a la legendaria se ora Isabel, quien resuelve a golpe de magia cada problema de ese lugar. Pero c mo resolver un misterio dentro de un edificio en el que se oyen voces que salen de las paredes, la gente entra a otra dimensi n mientras va caminando, y cada bella mujer que aparece tiene una misi n secreta, que implica juegos er ticos con animales, o viajes y paradojas en el tiempo? En La torre y el Jard n Alberto Chimal sum temas propios de la ciencia ficci n a la literatura fant stica y consigui una de las novelas m s ambiciosas de la narrativa latinoamericana reciente.

Alberto Chimal is the author of more than fifteen books and one novella, Los esclavos, and has become one of the most original and beloved storytellers of his generation. He is also a professor and teaches literary workshops.