Santiago Gamboa is a storyteller. This sounds like so general a statement that it doesn’t communicate anything, but not all novelists are interested in telling stories. There are novels about ideas, or language, or about the idea of language. There are novels that subvert the spirit of simple narration by reveling in our failures to understand one another. These novels all tend to fall under the banner of modern or postmodern, which in a way makes Gamboa a serious throwback. Instead of taking the weakness of our connections as his subject, in his most recent work, Necropolis, Gamboa emphasizes how almost miraculously successful we can be at talking to each other.
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