Mexico Trilogy

Through these novellas stroll Ethiopian murderers, the Queen of Sheba, a transvestite named Julio Abril, and ppuppulni-huhs, or swollen iguanas, whose erotic intentions are unclear.  Cameras hiss among ruins.  Airplanes and helicopters roar overhead, unloading badies and bombs.  The forests themselves are dangerous:  they exude poisons in the way flowers exude perfumes.  Dreams become visible in the heroin daze of Dominique, who drifts--naked except for her very high heeled shoes--past craps tables, slot machines, and workmen whose granted hands create starlets, or perhaps goddesses, from past de cana, the pith of the corn stalk.