by Alberto Ruy Sánchez · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420467672
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«En los labios del agua» is the novel by Alberto Ruy Sánchez, published by Alfaguara in hardback (184 pages, in Spanish).
A sleepwalking Mexican of Arab origin carries on his skin the sand of two deserts, Sonora and Sahara. In Mogador, an imaginary city, he follows the traces of a calligrapher who wrote about desire, guided by nine Black women who draw on his body a spiral of dreams. The book explores male desire and the longing to fill a void.
This edition was published in 2005 in the Alfaguara Hispánica collection. This work is the sister novel of Los nombres del aire.
For readers of contemporary Spanish-language fiction interested in the literary exploration of desire and dreams.
Alberto Ruy-Sánchez Lacy is a Mexican writer and editor born in Mexico City on 7 December 1951. He is an author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Since 1988 he has been the chief editor and founding publisher of Latin America's leading arts magazine, Artes de México. He has been a visiting professor at several universities including Stanford, Middlebury and La Sorbonne, and has been invited to give lectures in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America and South America. His work has been praised by Octavio Paz, Juan Rulfo, Severo Sarduy, Alberto Manguel and Claude Michel Cluny and has received awards from several international institutions.
