Field Ramble with Mateo García Elizondo
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On this episode we meet Mateo García Elizondo to hear more about his debut novel Last Date in El Zapotal. First published in Mexico in 2019 it won the City of Barcelona Literature Award that year but has had to wait until 2024 to be published in English by Charco Press.
At first glance Last Date is the story of a man who’s given up on life. Already almost a ghost, he arrives in El Zapotal with enough heroin to see him through his final days of longing and despair. But as the hallucinations build and the line between life and death blurs we find something else altogether…
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