Jernimo Rodrguez Loera appears to be a Mexican boy like any other, but he is also a monster: he remembers his complete cycle of reincarnations, and all human behaviour along with it. Perpendicular Lives uses a different formula, its a quantum novel, where all times and spaces are simultaneous. Emerging from this collision of realities are the mysteries that Enrigue begins to unravel: How is it that a Turkish carpet weaver, destined for the Sanhedrin, invented modernity? How can it be that the best erotic poet of our ...
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Jernimo Rodrguez Loera appears to be a Mexican boy like any other, but he is also a monster: he remembers his complete cycle of reincarnations, and all human behaviour along with it. Perpendicular Lives uses a different formula, its a quantum novel, where all times and spaces are simultaneous. Emerging from this collision of realities are the mysteries that Enrigue begins to unravel: How is it that a Turkish carpet weaver, destined for the Sanhedrin, invented modernity? How can it be that the best erotic poet of our language was also the most disagreeable man of his century? How did we see the world before speech?
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