The Parnassus literary congress that awards a prize for the best unpublished a teacher annually in new location and look for a city that lodge in 2007. This festival has a peculiarity: the authentic classic participants are all dead. Dante Alighieri, representing established and guarded by a young American poet very fashionable and a Mexican author (narrator of most of the novel), will travel to Mexico, possible future site. With them, visit a mall, crossing different borders between the US and Mexico, it is initiated in contemporary culture and even attends the shooting of Zorro III. Certain facts that Madrid will also compete for the nomination ...
Only Carmen Boullosa could write a novel well, creator of her own gender. Between Carnival and testing, including intellectual and pop, between novel of ghosts and road-novel, this unique, humorous and thoughtful, simple and complex time, novel confirms the place of the author in our Hispanic letters. The jury highlighted "the boldness of his proposal, the brilliant use of literary culture, and the severance of narrative molds to use" and "hilarious metaliterary game about the figure of the author."