Aug 09 2024 25 mins
On this episode we meet Mateo García Elizondo to hear more about his debut novel Last Date in El Zapotal. First published in Mexico in 2019 it won the City of Barcelona Literature Award that year but has had to wait until 2024 to be published in English by Charco Press.
At first glance Last Date is the story of a man who’s given up on life. Already almost a ghost, he arrives in El Zapotal with enough heroin to see him through his final days of longing and despair. But as the hallucinations build and the line between life and death blurs we find something else altogether. Beneath the sadness is the unshakeable presence of the past and all the desire for life it once held. As Mateo’s translator Robin Myers writes in El Zapotal a dream surfaces. 'A dream of love, the dream for love, the dream of what it would mean for love to be enough.'
Last Date in El Zapotal is published by Charco Press
www.charcopress.com
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