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The bilingual (Spanish and English) book also features a new conversation between Almodóvar and film journalist Rachel Handler, a foreword by Tilda Swinton, texts by curators Jenny He and J. He is the author of the novel Colonel Lágrimas, and in 2018, he won the National Prize for Literature in Costa Rica for his book of essays, La lucidez del miope. Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. English writer Aliza Abravanel tries, in a battle with aphasia, to finish her book. A dazzling novel about the traces we leave, the traces we erase and the traces we seek to rebuild, by one of the most innovative and powerful new voices in contemporary Latin American literature He teaches at Trinity College, Cambridge, and lives in London. Seven years later, after the designer's death, the curator recovers the archive of their never-completed project. A last indigenous speaker is confronted with the fading of his culture and language while an anthropologist struggles to prevent it.