On a dark and stormy night, an unnamed narrator is visited by two women: one a former lover, the other a stranger.
This surreal novel enfolds a masterful exploration of gender in taut, atmospheric mystery..
In increasingly desperate attempts to defend his masculinity, perplexed by the stranger's dubious claims to be the writer Amparo Davila, he finds himself spiralling deeper into a haunted past that may or may not be his own.
They ruthlessly question their host and claim to know his greatest secret: that he is, in fact, a woman.
On a dark and stormy night, an unnamed narrator is visited by two women: one a former lover, the other a stranger