Under the Volcano Art History by Theme A woman’s mysterious death puts

A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family in the first novel to be translated into English by the International Booker Prize–shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed—“the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time” (Kazuo Ishiguro)

Soon nobody is sure of anyone—as secrets stop being shameful and start becoming deadly

Over the years they’ve reunited in Big Sur to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living “funerals

particularly on civil rights

Some may think the Midwest is just a bunch of bland flyover states filled with less diversity than a Monsanto monoculture

Under the Volcano Art History by Theme A woman’s mysterious death puts"Lowry's masterpiece. . . has a claim to being regarded as one of the ten most consequential works of fiction produced in [the twentieth] century." Los Angeles Times Under the Volcano remains one of literature's most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition, and a brilliant portrayal of one man's constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him. Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac,