This latest work is an uproariously comic novel that deals head on with many of the gravest issues of 21st-century Mexico. The reader marvels throughout that the author of this fiercely perspicacious and laugh-out-loud funny novel is in his eighties: Fuentess familiar wit and breadth of experience are here in spades, but he also packs a high-velocity edginess worthy of a writer a third his age.

Review Quotes Fuentes does not cease to amaze. To save his relationship, his marriage, his life, and the soul of his country, perhaps Adam will indeed have to call upon the wrath of the angels to expel all these snakes from his Mexican Eden. Even Elle, Adams mistress, thinks the boy is important to their salvation-especially now that it seems the other Adam has put out a contract on Adam Gorozpe. Another unlikely snake is the little Boy-God whos started preaching in the street wearing a white tunic and stick-on wings, inspiring Adams brother-in-law to give up his job writing soap operas to follow this junior deity and implore Adam to do the same. For one thing, Adams wife Priscila has fallen in love with the brash director of national security-also named Adam-who uses violence against token victims to hide the fact that hes letting drug runners, murderers, and kidnappers go free. Book Synopsis In this comic novel of political intrigue, Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden of Eden-but there are snakes in this Eden too. But there are snakes in this Garden too, and in order to save his relationship, his marriage, his life, and the soul of his country, he may have to call upon the wrath of the angels to expel all these serpents from his Mexican Eden. About the Book Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden.

Eden high by jordan silver