Locos: A Comedy of Gestures (paperback) Germany and characters interweave and overlap

and characters interweave and overlap

weathering the tiny conflicts of interest and rivalries that spring up in such close quarters

Sixty years after its first publication

It's an edition we have long admired

The Summer of the Elder Tree was Marie Chaix's first book to appear in fourteen years

Locos: A Comedy of Gestures (paperback) Germany and characters interweave and overlapBy Felipe Alfau ISBN: 9781564781710 Publication Date: 12 18 1997 The interconnected stories that form this novel take place in a Madrid as exotic as the Baghdad of the 1001 Arabian Nights and feature unforgettable characters in revolt against their young author. "For them," he complains, "reality is what fiction is to real people; they simply love it and make for it against my almost heroic opposition." First published in 1936 and long neglected, this