Aphasia

� 'Monumental, funny, potent, and fresh' Carlos Fonseca, author of Natural History Antonio is living a double life�– and doing a pretty good job of it. By day he's Antonio, mild-mannered database analyst, recent divorc� and father of two. In private, however, he spends hours on seedy pick-up websites or combing fiction and film for the solutions to his problems. And then, Antonio's sister goes missing.� Her disappearance forces Antonio to confront not only his own troubled past, but his mother's decision to leave Colombia with two young children in tow, his ex-wife's obsessive, unhappy relationship with her homeland and, ultimately, the reason for his sister's despair.� Propulsive and freewheeling, bold and hilarious, Mauro Javier C�rdenas' second novel is a daring examination of identity in a world that seems determined to fragment us.�