Caracol Beach

Caracol Beach is a splendid and terrible novel, an impeccably drawn mosaic, where each situation fits into a whole game of feelings and where nothing, after all, is inevitable. A novel, winner of the 1998 Alfaguara Novel Prize, which deals with madness, fear, forgiveness and death.It is a Saturday in June, and Beto Milanés, an emigrant of Cuban origin, goes out looking for someone to kill him. In charge of the police station is a bald and obese sergeant, who has decided to apologize to his only child, Mandy, a transvestite who lives with an Armenian dressmaker. The ghost of a pianist flies around like a moth, trying to save her daughter. An obscure literature professor spends the night in a bar, talking to the most beautiful woman in the world. The African orishas descend from Olympus and come to the appointment with their drums. Three boys have gone to a supermarket for beer, to continue the party, and they come across the Cuban who wants a grave on the highway. It's been raining, there's a moon, someone has descerebrated a dog against a wall. Caracol Beach is a Greek tragedy set to the rhythm of rock and roll.An exceptional work.