Winner of the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award’A mesmerizing, revelatory novel, smart and funny and laced with a strangeness… For my money, Chloe Aridjis is one of the most brilliant novelists working in English today’ Garth Greenwell One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, 17-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with the reckless, impulsive Tom s, a boy she barely knows. Their quest: to track down a troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs who have recently escaped a touring circus.Together they head for Zipolite, the Beach of the Dead , a community peopled by hippies, nudists, beach combers and eccentric storytellers, and Luisa searches for someone, anyone, who will promise, no matter what, to remain a mystery . But as Luisa wanders the shoreline, she begins to discover that a quest is more easily envisioned than accomplished.’Destined to be a classic: a richly imaginative, reflective and entracing novel’ Xiaolu Guo
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