The Vamp of Mexico Street
Original title: El vampiro de la calle Méjico
Juan, an art restorer obsessed with mosaics, is accused by his lovers, and even by a policeman, of being a vampire. This is an accusation that he doesn’t understand but which he ends up accepting. One day, Juan’s solitary existence is interrupted by Teresa, a happy and enigmatic woman who is willing to indulge him in return for his favours. Between them emerges an intense and ambiguous relationship which becomes the engine of this striking, tragicomic and deeply contemplative novel about the vicissitudes of love and the fear of solitude.
Juan, an art restorer obsessed with mosaics, is accused by his lovers, and even by a policeman, of being a vampire. This is an accusation that he doesn’t understand but which he ends up accepting. One day, Juan’s solitary existence is interrupted by Teresa, a happy and enigmatic woman who is willing to indulge him in return for his favours. Between them emerges an intense and ambiguous relationship which becomes the engine of this striking, tragicomic and deeply contemplative novel about the vicissitudes of love and the fear of solitude.
