The extraordinary force of these stories, located in the vast and hallucinatory northern Mexico, helps us to discover a radically singular author, the direct descendant of Jose Revueltas and Juan Rulfo. Eduardo Antonio Parra mixes in these areas truth and myth, realism and lyricism, tragedy and imagination. With a masters touch, he outlines a moving map, frightening at times, of this no-mans land which is the desert, the Rio Bravo, the frontier cities and the ghostly villages where the peasants appear with their land and terror, the prostitutes, the women without men, those that have crossed the Border, of death or the United States, the drunks and their girlfriends, corrupt journalists Urban, desert, peasant, industrial and migrant, the North is, in the end, a Land of Everyone, ghosts of flesh and blood who have found in Parra an exceptional narrator.
