Antonio Sarabia

“Sarabia knows how to tell a tale: with passion, conviction and a poetic touch that frequently lifts his storytelling gift to new heights and grants him a unique aesthetic perspective.” (Sergio Mejía Echavarría)

"A book that gifts not hours of hard work but rather hours of pleasure, something I have not experienced since Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold." (Claude Couffon)

Gerardo Espejo was not born with that name. Today he passes himself off as a soothsayer, but his past is full of murky episodes. His mother was the sole heiress to a well-off family from Mixcapán, a small town in Mexico, who fell from grace in the time of the Cristero Wars when it was known that she had maintained a sinful relationship with a priest who would later be executed, for which young Gerardo is partly to blame.

He will also be ordained as a priest, only to find himself feeling the pull of earthly pleasures more than any spiritual calling, leading him to use his charms to wreak havoc among his female parishioners. With the passing years his life descends into a whirlwind of pleasure and selfishness until he falls head over heels for an attractive, virtuous nun who does not return his love.

It is then that Gerardo Espejo decides to make a clean break, but his decision unleashes dark forces that will be the bane of his existence from beyond the grave.