Fiction. Latino/a Studies. The latest work from "the most important living novelist from Spain" (S.F. Guardian) is a sureal, witty, roller coaster of a novel. "As you leave the room, from the top of the staris you look down on the perfectly freeze-framed guests or actors holding their drinks orglasses of champagne while the petrfied couples ready to dance await a signal or oder from the director ..." Juan Goytisolo has lived in volentary exile from Spain since 1956 and now divides his time between paris and Marrakesh. Peter Bush won the Ramon Valle-Incan Prize for literary translation in 1998 for his translation of this amazing work.