Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico (New Directions Pearls)
✍ Scribed by Javier Marías
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Year
- 2012;2010
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 54 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 081121964X
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✦ Synopsis
A gem of a Marias story: Elvis and his entourage abandon their translator in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals."It all happened because of Elvis Presley." Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire a proper Spaniard so that he can pronounce his few lines in Spanish with a Castillian accent. But Ruiberriz has taken on much more than he bargained for. One fatal night, horseplay in a local bar goes too far: a fatuous drunken American insults the local kingpin, and when the thug insists that Ruiberriz translate, Elvis himself adds an even more stinging comment--and who must translate that?