![]() ![]() After a series of increasingly broad and sketchy adventures (in which Azucena's guardian spirit, a variety of gods, and some truly weird technology are brought into play), all comes right. Rodrigo has been dumped onto a hellish planet, and faces an unpleasant death unless Azucena can rescue him. Set in Mexico City in the 23rd century, Esquivel's latest focuses on the determined and increasingly frantic attempts of Azucena, an ``astroanalyst'' (a therapist who helps people come to grips with the unfinished business of their past lives), to track down Rodrigo, her ``twin soul.'' (After a soul has died and been reincarnated thousands of times, it seems, it finally attains sufficient wisdom to locate its true companion, the missing half of its true and essential being.) Rodrigo and Azucena have been abruptly, inexplicably parted after just one night of supreme love, during which they have formed a single being that ``danced through space to the rhythm of the music of the spheres.'' It turns out that they have been swept into a bloody conspiracy by a deeply evil spirit to corrupt the largely blissful world of the future. ![]() ![]() An exuberant, hectic, ultimately exhausting novel about (among other things) time travel, true love, and reincarnation, by the author of the hugely best-selling Like Water for Chocolate (1992). ![]()
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