Albina and the dog-men : a fantastical novel / Alejandro Jodorowsky ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam ; with illustrations by François Boucq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jodorowsky, Alejandro, author.

Contributor:

Mac Adam, Alfred J., 1941- translator.

Boucq, illustrator.

Standardized Title:

Albina y los hombres-perro. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Albinos and albinism--Fiction.

Albinos and albinism.

Amnesiacs--Fiction.

Amnesiacs.

Chile.

Chile--Fiction.

Peru--Fiction.

Peru.

Genre:

Fiction.

Fantasy fiction.

Physical Description:

218 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, 2016.

Summary:

A darkly funny, surreal novel set in Chile and Peru, Albina and the Dog-Men is Alejandro Jodorowsky's sprawling modern myth in which sexual desire appears as a dangerous and generative force that mutates and transforms, unraveling identities and rending the social and moral fabric of a small town. Written with the stunning vision and cinematic flair he brought to his cult 1970s psychedelic freak-out films El Topo and The Holy Mountain, Jodorowsky turns the classic stranger-comes-to-town narrative on its head in his novel Albina and the Dog-Men. When two women--a beautiful amnesiac albino giantess and her protector, a leather-tough woman called Crabby--arrive in this South American desert town, Albina's otherworldly allure and unfettered sensuality turns men into wild animals. Chased at the same time by a clubfoot criminal, Albina and Crabby must fend off their aggressors before the town consumes itself in an orgy of lust and violence.

Notes:

Originally published: Albina y los hombres-perro, Ediciones Siruela, 2002.

ISBN:

9781632060549

163206054X

OCLC:

918284817

Publisher Number:

99971252576