A tale of intrigue and sexual entrapment. In this artful fusion of espionage thriller and science fiction, Manuel Puig tells one story shared by three women--an actress in the 1930s, living in her husband's fairy-tale castle; a young woman in Mexico City in the 1970s, convalescing in a hospital; and a futuristic cyborg sex slave, occupying an artificial landscape. In the haunting and mysterious language for which he is renowned,...