“Lamb of God…”
“Son of a bitch!”
“… You take away the sins of the world…”
“Son of a bitch!”
“… only say the word and my soul shall be healed…”
“What the fuck? Son of a bitch!”
Ramón opened his mouth like a hungry chick seeking its mother.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jorge Comensal was born in Mexico City in 1987. He has received grants from the Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas and the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. His work has appeared in Letras Libres, Este País, Nexos, Revista de la Universidad de México, VICE, and The Literary Review, and his essay Yonquis de las letras was published in Spain in 2017. The Mutations is his first novel. You can sign up for email updates here.
A NOTE ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
Charlotte Whittle is a writer and translator. Her work has appeared in The Literary Review, Guernica, BOMB, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. Her translation of Norah Lange’s People in the Room was published in 2018. She lives in New York and is an editor at Cardboard House Press. You can sign up for email updates here.
CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Part I
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Part II
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
A Note About the Author and Translator
Copyright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Copyright © 2016 by Jorge Comensal
Translation copyright © 2019 by Charlotte Whittle
All rights reserved
Originally published in Spanish in 2016 by Ediciones Antílope, Mexico, as Las mutaciones
English translation published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First American edition, 2019
E-book ISBN: 978-0-374-71882-4
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