Locos A Comedy of Gestures

Alfau's inventive ""comedy of gestures"" is, like,any hall-of-mirrors fun house, disorientatingmaddening and greatly entertaining. It has,everything any modern best-seller needs: murderincest, fallen priests, lascivious nuns, a couple,of suicides, several mysteries, the living deadpimps, whores, and poets, locales that shift from,China to the Philippnes, to the Caribbean to,Europe.