Augustino and the Choir of Destruction

The third part of the cycle begun with Soifs. On an island in the Gulf of Mexico lives a gallery of people who stand for all of humanity: rich and poor, the humble and the powerful, artists and criminals, whose fates intertwine in a single unending sentence. Child suicide bombers and the petty thieves of Bahama Street, Marie Curie sacrificing her life to knowledge, the Virgin of the Bags announcing the end of the world as she wanders Manhattan, Charles, the great poet struck down by AIDS, Petites Cendres, the transvestite who sells himself to a client of the Saloon, Caroline, the photographer who has seen the world's treasures, and Augustino, the child writer who senses destruction in his everyday life.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

301 pages in the original

Genres

Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States

Series

Soifs, book 3 · book 2: Dans la foudre et la lumière· book 4: Naissance de Rebecca à l'ère des tourments· book 5: Mai au bal des prédateurs

First published

2005 by Boréal

Author's age

66 when first published

ISBN

9782764603178 (original)

9780887847523 (House of Anansi Press, Canada)

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