In another of his novels, a character visits a library and releases poisoned insects in order to desecrate famous passages from his country's literature.
In this author's most recent novel, the Monster of Le Sentier is blown up in a terrorist attack, and ends up in a virtual afterlife where he receives emails from a Rastafarian rabbi and a radical imam named Alice. This author wrote a novel about an androgynous angel exiled from heaven who travels to the Pittsburgh sewers to have sex with an Arab; that novel's title is Arabic for "cemetery." In another of his novels, a character visits a library and releases poisoned insects in order to desecrate famous passages from his country's literature. His novels often celebrate the oral storytelling culture of North African open-air markets such as the Jemaa el Fna in Marrakesh, where he's lived in self-imposed exile since the mid-1990s. This author of (*) Exiled From Almost Everywhere and Makbara wrote a trilogy about Alvaro Mendiola--the second novel in that trilogy is a vindication of an 8th century Christian who helped the Umayyads conquer Hispania. For 10 points, name this author who attacked the traditional culture of his home country, Spain, in his novels Marks of Identity, Juan the Landless and Count Julian.
In this author's most recent novel, the Monster of Le Sentier is blown up in a terrorist attack, and ends up in a virtual afterlife where he receives emails from a Rastafarian rabbi and a radical imam named Alice.
Juan Goytisolo