Publisher's Synopsis
Quiroga's life was a tragic parable. He accidentally killed a friend, his first wife committed suicide within a few years of marriage, he was abandoned by his second wife, he fell ill with cancer, and finally, unable to deal with his ghosts, he committed suicide. Tales of love, madness and death is the result of that tormented life and it is where he displays all his gifts. In these stories, the mystery is master and lord, although always immersed in everyday situations, which increases the impact. Madness and love are constantly intertwined, inevitably leading to death. His stories, charged with implicit violence, produce an asphyxiating tension that is only released with the most unexpected of endings. The jungle and wild setting of the Missions that he knew, frame his stories.
