Ausencio

The novel begins when Arturo attends his father's funeral. Although the family and friends mourn the deceased, the protagonist can not feel sorry for that death, and that guilt will eventually lead to the same vice that killed his father. His life will become a slow labyrinth in whose center rests the threatening beast of alcohol, from which he seeks to flee, but to whose claws he returns for lack of will, for the moral wound that stings him. He will roam the bars of Oaxaca, through the streets and parks of Mexico City, will travel by roads and dirt roads to lose sight of what torments him:…