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Vírgenes Y Toxicómanos / Virgins and Addicts
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Virgins and Addicts is one of Mario Mendoza's most unsettling and mysterious novels. Anton Echeverry, an exemplary father and a human rights advocate, spirals into a deep crisis after the sudden and strange death of his wife. His world collapses, and the only thing preventing him from falling into complete despair is his son Martín, a brilliant sociology student who was left disabled after an accident years earlier. One day, Anton overhears a conversation between Martín and his best friend, a fellow university student and the son of a politician who uses crutches due to polio, in which they say they are "God's sadness." Struck by these words, Anton devises a bold plan to help his son. What follows will affect Martín--and everyone around him--far beyond what Anton ever imagined. An unexpected event will turn everything upside down and plunge the troubled father into unreality and delirium. In this story, nothing is what it seems. There are many worlds, many states. We are all in transit. Nothing comes from nothing, and nothing disappears completely.
