Texas, 1917

About the Book

(Spanish and English Edition) Abril de 1917, el matemático e intelectual Alejandro López del Castillo muere abaleado por un grupo de Texas Rangers. Las causas del asesinato son un misterio. Una muerte más en el tiempo de La Matanza. Casi ochenta años después del crimen, una niña de seis años, la hija del teniente de policía Ignacio José Malpica, hace un dibujo: Sobre una banda de Mӧbius camina un gato amenazado por una cruz, un cometa y una serpiente. ‘Salven al gato’ pide la niña. ¿Quién es el gato? ♦♦♦ April 1917, mathematician and intellectual Alejandro López del Castillo dies shot by a group of Texas Rangers. The causes of the murder are a mystery. One more death in the time of La Matanza. Almost eighty years after the crime, a six-year-old girl, the daughter of police lieutenant Ignacio José Malpica, makes a drawing: On a Möbius strip walks a cat threatened by a cross, a comet and a snake. ‘Save the cat’ begs the little girl. Who is the cat?

About the Author

José Talleyrand Rodríguez was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He has received graduate degrees from Universidad Simón Bolívar, Indiana University and SUNY Stony Brook performing research in science, literature and cultural studies. In recent years he has published two novels, Sirena en Do Menor and Caballo Negro en Tierra de Gracia, and two books of short stories, Amores, Canciones, Estrellas y Pistolas and Crimes and Misdemeanors: Tales of Mystery and Imagination. A lover of classic noir and modern Latin American literature who likes to examine phenomena associated with social injustice. He currently lives in the United States somewhere near New York City.