In this extraordinary collection, acclaimed Mexican writer Liliana Blund presents us with starling, tender and often hilarious take on modern life. The wry, intimate stories in The Curse or Eve pulse with the ache of abandoned dreams and debauched desires. In the affecting title story,the very ordinary fate young mother is laid bare as the stuff of tragedy. in Kisses on the Forebead, a personal ad leadsto dese perate tryst between a virgin and a vagabond, while A model kit invites us to observe an unorthdox artist and his odious methods of creation. A young woman´s adventures with a porn star inspire an unlikely new vocation in God Bless Ron Jeremy, and in To Adorn the Saints the apperance of naked virgin in the bell-tower wreaks havoc on the village of San Cordelio de Cocoyótl.
With lush, elegant prose,Blum performs an unfliching psychological autopsy on her twisted cast of characters, and offers a surreal yet plausible vision of life in the villages and port towns of her homeland. Appering in English for the first time, The Curse of Eve illuminates the vagaries of marriage, motherhood and morality, and percetky encapsulatesthe many small ways in which we make sense of our daily lives.
