El amo del corral

This is an excessive novel, written in a torrential and furious voice that dares to tackle everything: satire, tragedy, lyricism, politics, alienation. Kaltenbrunner is an unforgettable character: a rural, unhinged, and visionary Quixote who channels his fury into an absurd yet glorious rebellion against the system that expelled him, leading a garbage collectors' strike in that deep America of sinister poultry farms and undocumented immigrants; one of those characters who stays with you, an outcast turned myth, an antihero whose rage is not only personal but profoundly political. This work captures the rotten heart of an invisible America, seen through the eyes of the marginalized, the lucid madman, the one who has nothing left to lose.