Title: Scarlet Moon - Rolo Díez - book
Summary :
In her two-room apartment in the heart of Mexico City, Scarlett is ready to become a princess. From the cradle, her mother burned her eyes reading her society columns and making her dresses to match her ambitions. But Prince Charming is slow to declare himself. While waiting for him, Scarlett is forced to work and use her charms to make ends meet. For his part, dogged by misfortune, Julio César burns his friends under bridges, wanders from prison to prison, listens to the drunken ravings of a Bukowski emulator, shares his life with a tramp, when he's not working for the police or pushing children under the wheels of trucks in his role as defender of the law. Whether we pursue an absurd dream or drift from chance to crime, we are doomed if we cannot decipher the messages of the moon, a moon stained with blood by the exactions of a gang of cops as sadistic as they are perverse. Rolo Díez, the former activist, has a formidable talent for pointing out the brutality of the god Liberalism. His condition as an exile has taught him to shift his gaze to see better. In the purest tradition of Greek tragedy, Scarlet Moon offers a particularly lucid picture of Mexico in the 90s. In this seventh novel, Rolo Díez confirms his art of reconciling darkness and humanism.
