Author: Jorge Volpi
- Fiction
- Alfaguara  
- ISBN: 9789707706545
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Juan Pablo Debesis

This novel narrates the great transformations of our time: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the coup d'etat against Gorbachev, Yeltsin's ascension to power, germ warfare and the Human Genome Project. In a style both elegant and profound, Volpi explores the avarice, the passion and the egotism which move human beings, within the political-historical context of globalization.