Livro Albina and the Dog-Men

From the psychomagical guru who brought you "The Holy Mountain" and "Where the Bird SingsBest" comes a supernatural love-and-horror story in which a beautiful albino giantess unleashesthe slavering animal lurking inside the men of a Chilean village.

A darkly funny, surreal novel set in Chile and Peru, "Albina and the Dog-Men" is AlejandroJodorowsky s sprawling modern myth in which sexual desire appears as a dangerous andgenerative force that mutates and transforms, unraveling identities and rending the social andmoral fabric of a small town.

Written with the stunning vision and cinematic flair he brought to his cult 1970s psychedelicfreak-out films "El Topo" and "The Holy Mountain," Jodorowsky turns the classic stranger-comes-to-town narrative on its head in his novel "Albina and the Dog-Men." When two women abeautiful amnesiac albino giantess and her protector, a leather-tough woman called Crabby arrive in this South American desert town, Albina s otherworldly allure and unfettered sensualityturns men into wild animals.

Chased at the same time by a clubfoot criminal, Albina and Crabbymust fend off their aggressors before the town consumes itself in an orgy of lust and violence. A modern-day Kafka story on hallucinogens, with strong doses of mysticism and horror, "Albinaand the Dog-Men" reads like an ancient folk tale whispered at night, fused with an urgent critiqueof contemporary society and gender relations.

Woven through a Jodorowskian fabric of killerbees, enchanted parrots, witches, prostitutes, midgets, omnisexual couplings and men gonecanine is a universal story of love against the odds and the things that make us human."