![]() ![]() And while the clothed ones will elect certain naked ones to favor and protect, the weakest of the naked ones are maimed or even die of starvation at young ages. Though clothed ones arrive at the house whenever they like, naked ones can't leave the house without being harassed and attacked, subject to elaborate, innovative forms of torture. We learn, for example, that all naked ones possess both sexes, each individual essentially choosing their gender at some point in their youth. ![]() The novel examines a group of naked prisoners who have been put away in an enormous but cramped house where they are forced to serve the higher caste of “clothed ones.” From the shadows of the wardrobe in which he's been sentenced to live, the narrator, a "naked one," describes his silent and interior rebellion against the clothed ones, unravelling this small society’s structures and rituals in all their nuance and complexity. The celebrated Rosero is no stranger to the darker regions of the human imagination, whether in his previous novels of Colombian politics and history or in his latest, a mythical story whose world is removed from ours as in a fairy tale, it exists outside any recognizable place while reflecting, from a tilt, the violent history of modern nation-states. ![]() ![]() Recalling the work of Kafka and de Sade, a nightmarish fable explores timeless questions about violence and subjugation, power and freedom. ![]()
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