A Sweet Scent of Death

by Guillermo Arriaga (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $3.28

  The naked body of a beautiful teenage girl is found in a field near the small Mexican village of Loma Grande. Local boy Ramon Castanos admired the fair Adela only from afar; and yet such is his distress at her death that the townsfolk take him to be her bereaved lover, and prevail upon him to avenge her murder. With deceptive simplicity Guillermo Arriaga depicts how a trail of gunpowder-like gossip can erupt into unstoppable violence. 'Steeped in [Amores Perros's] sense of lurid desperation and fetid tragedy, A Sweet Scent of Death beats a muscular path to a crushing denouement.' The Face

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $4.38

  A Sweet Smell of Deathcomes from the body of a naked young woman who is found murdered one morning in a remote Mexican village. This is a fiercely human story of how all the villagers gradually become involved in the hunt to discover the murderer and avenge the brutal slaying. It is a story of forbidden love - love that pushes the main characters to the edge of the abyss and drags them inexorably to fulfil their tragic destiny. Influenced by William Faulkner and Paul Auster, Arriaga has woven a complex narrative of the terrible cost of love.

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  Paperback
  2007

  $19.09