Name: Navidad & Matanza
ISBN: 9781934824924

Carlos Labbé

A genre-bending novel about two missing children, a fear-inducing drug called "hadón," and seven scientists collaborating on a novel-game.

Navidad & Matanza

Phil James

Received as Goodreads Giveaway.
 "A literary descendent of Roberto Bolaño..."
I didn't really like the Robert Bolano I read; I felt it was pretentious and deliberately obscure. I just finished "Infinite Jest" by David foster Wallace, and that could be similarly accused, but with the key difference, I was drawn in by the characters.
This book is an intricate puzzle, a glittering jewel of compact post-modern techniques that is admirable but ultimately empty because I wasn't attached to any character. 
There is no time to develope the characters in 90 pages, but anyway the main theme is the mutability of identity,so maybe character wasn't the point and in the end I was glad it was as short as it was.
Not bad but not really for me.

Navidad & Matanza

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