The Iliac Crest
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On a dark and stormy night, an unnamed narrator is visited by two women: one a former lover, the other a stranger. They ruthlessly question their host and claim to know his greatest secret: that he is, in fact, a woman. In increasingly desperate attempts to defend his masculinity, perplexed by the stranger’s dubious claims to be the writer Amparo Dávila, he finds himself spiralling deeper into a haunted past that may or may not be his own.
This surreal novel enfolds a masterful exploration of gender in taut, atmospheric mystery.
Cristina Rivera Garza
Cristina Rivera Garza is an award-winning author, translator, and critic. Her books, originally written in Spanish, have been translated into multiple languages. She has won the Roger Caillois Award for Latin American Literature, the Anna Seghers-Preis, and the International Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. In 2020, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Grant. She received her PhD in 2012 in Latin American history from the University of Houston, where she teaches.
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Reviews for The Iliac Crest
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The blurb of this book says that two women turn up at a man's house and immediately start interrogating him, claiming that he is a woman. That's not true. There's no immediacy and they never interrogate him; perhaps some of the linguistic wordplay in the original Spanish is lost in English, because I didn't find much about gender in this either (the women do - calmly and smugly - assert that the narrator is a woman, a couple of times, and another character calls him 'miss', but that's about it). There was a sort of plot, to do with several iterations of the same (real, famous) writer, searching for a missing manuscript, but it all became a bit untethered from its own ideas towards the end, and ultimately I just felt like I'd missed the point (perfectly possible). Other people's mileage may vary but it left me cold.