7/7/2023 0 Comments Tentacle by Rita IndianaArgenis comes to live on Giorgio and Linda’s beach, Playa Bo but he starts having visions during which he is alive in the colonial period in the same part of the island. Meanwhile, a young artist named Argenis who is fired from his job giving tarot readings to customers over the phone is taken in by Giorgio. They start operating a laboratory on a beach on the island dedicated to saving marine life. Eric finds Alcide after she goes on the run and helps her to transition from a woman to a man, then Alcide is transported back in time to 1991 and becomes Giorgio Menicucci, who falls in love with a woman named Linda Goldman who inherits money from her rich father. With a friend, Alcide is responsible for Esther’s murder and gets away with a precious anemone that Esther keeps in a special receptacle in her luxurious home. Alcide is a low-rent female prostitute who is taken in by a man named Eric who occupies a place in the household of a soothsayer for the country’s president. The story opens in a year (2037) in the future when the coral reefs have all died. The other thing to say at the outset is that it’s not long so you never feel oppressed even when the story takes one of its characteristic turns. The plot is complex and the politics are unashamedly progressive. The translation is very good but the pace is very fast and you won’t grasp everything as it unfolds. This strange work of speculative fiction was first published in Spanish by its Dominican author in 2015.
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