Mogador: The Names of the Air

by Alberto Ruy-Sánchez

Book Overview

Villaurrutia Prize for Best Mexican Novel

Set in an imaginary walled city off the coast of Morocco, Mogador traces the days and nights of Fatma, a young woman who finds herself suddenly seized by desire. As she wanders the city's maze of erotic pleasures, she encounters other desiring bodies and the desperate worlds those desires create. Here is a vital fusion of Latin America magical realism with Arabic geometric and mystical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872862712
• ISBN13: 9780872862715
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

more than reading

When I went into the pages of this book I discovered a new way of understanding my senses and my desires. As important as learning how to read, through the lenses of a poetic an sensous adventure. Telling us the story of Fatma, in the imaginary and walled city of Mogador, this book opens a question about women's desire that only each one of us, women readers, can answer. This is a masterpiece of subtility, a book to share with the dearest persons, a tale to read and read again. I found an english translation of this book as Mogador, published in San Francisco by City Lights. The sequel's title of Los nombres del aire is En los labios del agua. I could not find an english translation. Anyway, both books exists in french. Les visages de l'air, and Les levres de l'eau. An amazing experience for the senses more than a text to read.