The Books Oracle
by Cristina Rivera Garza
It's 1920 and Joaquín Buitrago, who through the twists of his tormented life has ended up photographing inmates at La Castañeda asylum, suddenly encounters among the women he photographs Matilda Burgos. Obsessed by this patient's identity, convinced he knew her in another life, he unravels a story of desire, madness, and revolutionary Mexico, where the boundary between sanity and insanity mirrors the nation's own upheaval.
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