Daniel Sada,Katherine Silver
"Of my generation I most admire Daniel Sada, whose writing project seems to me the most daring."- Roberto BolaÃ±o,This Rabelaisian tale of lust and longing in the drier precincts of postwar Mexico introduces one of Latin Americaâ€™s most admired writers to the English-speaking world.,Demetrio Sordo is an agronomist who passes his days in a dull but remunerative job at a ranch near Oaxaca. It is 1945, World War II has just ended, but those bloody events have had no impact on a country that is only on the cusp of industrializing. One day, more bored than usual, Demetrio visits a bordello in search of a libidinous solution to his malaise. There he begins an all-consuming and, all things considered, perfectly satisfying relationship with a prostitute named Mireya.,A letter from his mother interrupts Demetrioâ€™s debauched idyll: she asks him to return home to northern Mexico to accompany her to a wedding in a small town on the edge of the desert. Much to his motherâ€™s delight, he meets the beautiful and virginal Renata and quickly falls in loveâ€”a most proper kind of love.,Back in Oaxaca, Demetrio is torn, the poor cad. Naturally he tries to maintain both relationships, continuing to frolic with Mireya and beginning a chaste correspondence with Renata. But Mireya has problems of her ownâ€”boredom is not among themâ€”and concocts a story that she hopes will help her escape from the bordello and compel Demetrio to marry her. Almost Never is a brilliant send-up of Latin American machismo that also evokes a Mexico on the verge of dramatic change.
Fiction,Historical,Historical Fiction,Cultural,Latin American,European Literature,Spanish Literature,Literature,Novels,Contemporary,Literature,21st Century
Almost Never