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A bitter drunk forsakes civilization and takes to the Mexican
jungle, trapping animals, selling their pelts to buy liquor for
colossal benders, and slowly rotting away in his fetid hut. His
neighbors, a clan of the Lacodon tribe of Chiapas, however, see
something more in him than he does himself (dubbing him Wise Owl):
when he falls deathly ill, a shaman named Black Ant saves his
life-and, almost by chance, in driving out his fever, she exorcises
the demon of alcoholism as well. Slowly recovering, weak in his
hammock, our antihero discovers a curious thing about the
mosquitoes' buzzing, "which to human ears seemed so irritating and
pointless." Perhaps, in fact, it constituted a language he might
learn-and with the help of a flute and a homemade dictionary-even
speak. Slowly, he masters Mosquil, with astonishing consequences...
Will he harness the mosquitoes' global might? And will his new
powers enable him to take over the world that's rejected him? A
book far ahead of its time, His Name Was Death looks down the
double-barreled shotgun of ecological disaster and colonial
exploitation-and cackles a graveyard laugh.
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