At the end of this novel, Molina is shot to death by the police, while Valentin is left in an idyllic stream of consciousness after being brutally tortured.
One character in this novel invents the story of Leni, a French cabaret singer who is forced to spy on the Nazi officer Werner. In its ninth and tenth chapters, that character describes an island where black workers who rebel against banana plantations are turned into zombies by a witch doctor. One of its main characters loves the waiter Gabriel, and retells I Walked With a Zombie and Cat People to a Marxist revolutionary. At the end of this novel, Molina is shot to death by the police, while Valentin is left in an idyllic stream of consciousness after being brutally tortured. For 10 points, name this 1976 novel about an Argentinean political prisoner listening to his gay cellmate tell movie plots, written by Manuel Puig.
One character in this novel invents the story of Leni, a French cabaret singer who is forced to spy on the Nazi officer Werner.
{Kiss} of the {Spider Woman} [or {El beso} de la {mujer araña}]