Julio Valdivieso, un intelectual mexicano en Europa, regresa a su país tras una larga ausencia. Con el PRI derrotado, México vive una transición peculiar. En su retorno, enfrenta un amor perdido, la leyenda del poeta Ramón López Velarde y un episodio de la guerra cristera. En un México azotado por el crimen y la política corrupta, la novela es una irónica revisión de los mitos y reivindicación de la poesía en el caos histórico. Julio Valdivieso, a Mexican intellectual in Europe, returns to his country after a long absence. With the PRI defeated, Mexico is experiencing a peculiar transition. On his return, he faces a lost love, the legend of the poet Ramón López Velarde and an episode of the Cristero War. In a Mexico plagued by crime and corrupt politics, the novel is an ironic revision of myths and a vindication of poetry in the chaos of history.
Julio Valdivieso, un intelectual mexicano en Europa, regresa a su país tras una larga ausencia. Con el PRI derrotado, México vive una transición peculiar. En su retorno, enfrenta un amor perdido, la leyenda del poeta Ramón López Velarde y un episodio de la guerra cristera. En un México azotado por el crimen y la política corrupta, la novela es una irónica revisión de los mitos y reivindicación de la poesía en el caos histórico. Julio Valdivieso, a Mexican intellectual in Europe, returns to his country after a long absence. With the PRI defeated, Mexico is experiencing a peculiar transition. On his return, he faces a lost love, the legend of the poet Ramón López Velarde and an episode of the Cristero War. In a Mexico plagued by crime and corrupt politics, the novel is an ironic revision of myths and a vindication of poetry in the chaos of history.
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