There are sunflowers at the end of the world. There are human skins covered in precious tattoos—Kahlos, Picassos, Botticellis—living pictures. There are revolutions and expiration dates; copies and unused originals; innocence and horror; hunts and couplings. And there are sayings, too. They are everywhere: "You shall love your mother above all things." Abominable, pure, raw, and colorful. The oil painting of our final days is an inevitable existential chiaroscuro.
Abominable Purity of the World is a collection of 11 stories steeped in the Latin American science fiction tradition, stitched together with the unique and characteristic skill of Cuban narrator, poet, and playwright Elaine Vilar Madruga, who tenderly and gloomily imagines the fate of humanity, "as only nightmares can."
