From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed screenwriter of Amores perros, 21 Grams, and Babel, A Sweet Scent of Death is Guillermo Arriaga's tale of deception, passion, and violence fused together by the tragic killing of a young girl in a small Mexican village.   Early one morning in a deserted field, Ramón Castaños is confronted with the dead body of Adela, a lovely young girl, whom he had only admired from afar. Within an hour, rumor of the death of Ramón Castaños's girlfriend has spread to every corner of Loma Grande. This powder-trail of gossip ignites further violence when the villagers, thirsty for revenge, cast about for answers and hit upon the nomadic José Echeverri-Berriozábal, known as "the Gypsy." Honor then demands that Ramón must now live out his imaginary past in a brutal reality and prove his manhood by avenging Adela's cruel fate.   Guillermo Arriaga is the author of The Night Buffalo and The Guillotine Squad. He has worked in television, radio, and film. Arriaga is the award-winning screenwriter of Amores perros, 21 Grams, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and Babel.

SWEET SCENT OF DEATH

GUILLERMO ARRIAGA

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Faber and Faber

Full of Arriaga's trademark humor and irony present in his films and novels, The Guillotine Squad takes us back to one of the most exciting times in Mexican history. Feliciano Velasco y Borbolla de la Fuente, a lawyer, sells his famous invention, the guillotine, to Pancho Villa, the renowned insurgent general of the Mexican Revolution. Soon Feliciano finds himself immersed in the logic of this simultaneously bizarre, heroic, and cruel world of Villa's troops.

Guillotine Squad, The

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

<p>Una joven aparece muerta completamente desnuda. Ramón, un muchacho que vive en un pueblo cercano, es el primero en acercarse al cadáver. Apenas conoce a Adela, la muchacha asesinada, pero todos en el pueblo lo señalan como el novio de la misma. Incapaz de desmentir el rumor, Ramón termina destinado a vengar a su nueva amada, convencido de que es su deber; y poco a poco en el pueblo de Loma Grande se empieza a esparcir el dulce olor de la muerte.</p>

Un dulce olor a muerte/ A Sweet Smell of Death

Grupo Editorial Norma USA

Um Doce Aroma de Morte

Gryphus Editora

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