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Narcisa

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Publisher
Infinitum Nihil/Harper Perennial
Language
English
Published
2015
  • Self-destructive behavior
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Addicts
  • Fiction
  • Fiction, romance, general
  • Man-woman relationships, fiction
  • Rio de janeiro (brazil), fiction
  • New york (n.y.), fiction

In the wild backwaters of Rio de Janerio and New York, motorcycle-riding, nomadic outlaw poet Ignacio Valencia Lobos--known as Cigano--attempts in vain to curb the unhinged habits of his lover, Narcisa, a crack-smoking philosopher prostitute. Though he knows they will destroy each other, Narcisa is an exquisite poison he cannot resist. As they navigate the chaos of her downward spiral-dragged deeper by the gravity of drugs, burglaries, and violence, Cigano recounts a love affair doomed by insanity, dysfunction, and vice.