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A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able only to listen to the sounds around him - sure that any deviation from their normal progression would mean the uprising of the conspirators that surround him. And three different men search desperately for the beguiling scents of lost women, from a Count visiting Madame Odile''s perfumery, to a London drummer stepping over spent, naked bodies.

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Under the Jaguar Sun

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    A Paperback / softback by Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 28 May 2009
      ISBN-13 9780141189727
      978-0141189727
      ISBN-10 014118972X
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      Contemporary Fiction Books by Italo Calvino

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able only to listen to the sounds around him - sure that any deviation from their normal progression would mean the uprising of the conspirators that surround him. And three different men search desperately for the beguiling scents of lost women, from a Count visiting Madame Odile''s perfumery, to a London drummer stepping over spent, naked bodies.

      Trade Review
      'The pleasure of these stories is intense: the flexibility and range of Calvino's imagination bring to them a kind of organic perfection as though they had not been written by a man but rather grown of their own accord' Sunday Telegraph

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