Palinuro of Mexico (original 1976; edition 1996)

by Fernando del Paso, Elizabeth Plaister

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Member:	DieFledermaus
Title:	Palinuro of Mexico
Authors:	Fernando del Paso
Other authors:	Elizabeth Plaister
Info:	Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive Press, 1996.
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Since childhood, Palinuro, a medical student, has loved his first cousin, Estefania, with an overwhelming and consuming passion. Now they indulge their incestuous desires and bizarre fantasies in a room in Mexico City. Sex and culture.

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