Tryno Maldonado logra con extraordinaria maestra enlazar y fundir una literatura divertida y hasta delicada con un personaje irrespetuoso, subversivo, feroz y a la vez radiante. Un prncipe del sexo. SERGIO PITOL Viena a principios del siglo XX. Friedl Aichinger, joven violinista discpula de Arnold Schnberg, se ve involucrada gratuitamente en la histrica matanza y quema del Palacio de Justicia, durante la cual un polica a caballo le parte un brazo de forma brutal. A esta desgracia se agrega otra: el derrumbe de su matrimonio con Harald, brillante crtico musical cuya carrera se vio interrumpida por una infundada acusacin de antisemitismo y de quien ahora acabar de separarlo Ethel, prodigiosa alumna por quien no puede contener los celos. Friedl opta por la renuncia a todas las cosas que le eran queridas y a su pas, anexionado a Alemania, del que decidir desterrarse, lejos de Arnold Schnberg, Alban Berg, Alma Mahler, Karl Kraus, los Wittgenstein y muchas otras de las celebridades que pueblan esta novela tan vibrante como bien construida. Considered by critics to be one of the most promising voices in contemporary Mexican literature. He was named one of the best young Latin American writers by the Colombian magazine Gatopardo in 2006. His work appears in various national and international anthologies. He has published the collection of stories Themes and Variations (among the best books of 2003 according to the newspaper Reforma) and the novel Red Vienna (2005). He organized and edited the anthology Greatest Hits, Vol. 1: New Generation of Mexican Writers (2008) and has contributed to some of the most important publications in Mexico. Since 2003, he has maintained a blog at www.atari2600.blogspot.com. Currently he lives in Oaxaca, where he is an editor at the publishing house Editorial Almada. Tryno Maldonado achieves with extraordinary mastery the intertwining ans fusion of literature that is fun and even delicate, with an irreverent, subversive, ferocious abd yet simultaneously character. A prince of sex." SERGIO PITOL
