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.