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"The year is 1901. Mexico City is under the sway of eccentric spiritualists looking for answers from the beyond and decadent writers whose orgies go on until dawn. At the lowest level of society, the brothels reek of opium and are full of lepers and thieves, while the outskirts of the city boast circuses where freaks and lunatics are the main attractions. Doctors in the city's mental asylums are experimenting with the nascent science of psychiatry, storing the brains of criminals in formaldehyde-filled jars. In this unsettling and insalubrious environment, Dr. Servando de Lizardi, a respected…mehr

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"The year is 1901. Mexico City is under the sway of eccentric spiritualists looking for answers from the beyond and decadent writers whose orgies go on until dawn. At the lowest level of society, the brothels reek of opium and are full of lepers and thieves, while the outskirts of the city boast circuses where freaks and lunatics are the main attractions. Doctors in the city's mental asylums are experimenting with the nascent science of psychiatry, storing the brains of criminals in formaldehyde-filled jars. In this unsettling and insalubrious environment, Dr. Servando de Lizardi, a respected phrenologist, is charged with solving a brutal murder and questioning the only witness to the crime: âAngela, a seven-year-old girl who can't remember what she saw"--English translation of publisher description.
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Autorenporträt
José Mariano Leyva (Cuernavaca, 1975). Ensayista y narrador, maestro en Historia por la UNAM. Investigador de tiempo completo en la Dirección de Estudios Históricos (INAH), colaborador en varias revistas y suplementos literarios, así como becario del Sistema Nacional de Creadores (2013-2015). Obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Novela José Rubén Romero por Imbéciles Anónimos (Mondadori, 2011). También ha publicado la novela La casa inundada (Literatura Random House, 2016), el libro de ensayos El ocaso de los espíritus. El espiritismo en México en el siglo xix (1999), El Complejo Fitzgerald (2008) y Perversos y pesimistas. Los escritores decadentes mexicanos en el nacimiento de la modernidad (2013). Asimismo, ha escrito dos libros de historia para niños. Fue director del Fideicomiso Centro Histórico de la CDMX (2015-2018) y actualmente dirige la Biblioteca Vasconcelos y la Biblioteca de México.