Y el asno vio al ángel

"And the ass saw the angel" is a novel that none of its readers will be able to forget. Its main character, Euchrid Eucrow, is the product of several incestuous generations of brandy consumers. With physical malformations and dumb from birth, but possessed by an unusual sensitivity, which he hides under a sympathetic and indestructible swagger: he lives in an isolated community of cane growers dominated by a strict and peculiar religious sect, the Ukulites. Subjugated by the sometimes terrifying and sometimes hilarious obsessions and obsessions of a monstrous mother and a half-psychotic father, and by the constant mockery of the rest of the community, Euchrid learns to find refuge in a world of his own, that of the heart of the swamp on the edge of town. But even that safe haven is denied him, and when his sense of loneliness and resentment ends up turning to an innocent but privileged impostor, accepted within the Ukulite community, Euchrid gradually sinks into self-deception and dementia, culminating in an act that drops the terrible revenge of the valley on him.