Grief

Juan has left his past behind for the seductions of the city and the Crystal Realm - a world of ever-changing fashion, daily plastic surgery, mind-altering drugs and bizarre sex. He effortlessly climbs the social hierarchy, gaining money and power until the city thrills to his every move - but something is missing from his life, which perhaps only the picaresque troupe of troubadours who are trekking across the desert in search of him can explain. Grief is both a unique dystopia, or perhaps an interpretation of the present, and a remarkable psychological fantasy, disturbing, witty and moving by turns.