Open door - Luisa Valenzuela

Walk through Luisa Valenzuela's Open Door
and into a world both lush and sinister.
?Cat's Eye? is a glittering, fearful story, sinuous like the panther that lurks in the central character's eye, in ?Country Carnival?
we see the military-hero turned costumed surrealist arrive at the country carnival to upset the local women.
In ?Legend? Jos? Maria and Maria Jos? are unhappy twins in a single, gender-confused body, and ?City of the Unknown? is a
journey into the illusion of reality. From a dusty town in rural Argentina to the caverns of New York, Open Door
admits the reader into a
world of finely-crafted prose.
Her black humour reveals a society dominated by male violence and militarism and shows why Luisa Valenzuela is, in the words of Carlos Fuentes, 'the heiress of Latin American ficition'.