Shipwrecked Body

Shipwrecked Body

Antonia wakes up one day a man, or at least in the body of one. Is identity more than skin deep? Does sexuality begin with desire, and if so, what desire has left her shipwrecked on such a strange island, inside such a complicated labyrinth as the male body? Set against the backdrop of downtown Mexico City, this novel explores a very male world from the perspective of a hidden observor. Review Subversive...all the secrets of seduction seen from a man's perspective...eroticism has become one of the fundamental interests in the work of Ana Clavel. --MilenioClavel explores masculine desire through the total transgression of the body. --ConfabularioWith camera in hand, the protagonist ventures into those masculine spaces in order to capture for a moment the sensuality of those hollow white forms and subtle curves where men release their amber liquid. --El Universal About the Author Ana Clavel (Mexico City, 1961) is the author of the novel Desire and Its Shadow (Aliform Publishing, 2006; originally published as Los deseos y su sombra, Alfaguara, 2005) and the collections of short stories Para