Vlad

by Carlos Fuentes

Book Overview

Where, Carlos Fuentes asks, is a modern-day vampire to roost? Why not Mexico City, populated by ten million blood sausages (that is, people), and a police force who won't mind a few disappearances? "Vlad" is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic cruelty was an inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. In this sly sequel, Vlad really is undead: dispossessed after centuries of mayhem by Eastern European wars and rampant blood shortages. More than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564787796
• ISBN13: 9781564787798
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.1"