Salamanca 21: English Version

SEVEN DOORS. SEVEN SINS. SEVEN VIRTUES THAT DON'T QUITE WORK. Welcome to 21 Salamanca Street, in Mexico City's Colonia Roma, where every tenant guards a story they would rather keep hidden.An ensemble novel inspired by the seven deadly sins and the seven virtues that, supposedly, counteract them: Gluttony and Temperance Pride and Humility Lust and Chastity Greed and Charity Wrath and Patience Envy and Gratitude Sloth and Diligence Seven narrow labels-reminders that the human heart is always vaster and more elusive than the morality that tries to contain it.With a gaze that can be tender and merciless in the same sentence, Salamanca 21 portrays a contemporary Mexico City-its influencers and its psychoanalysts, its gentrification and its neighborhood watch committees-and that particular species of tenant who spies, judges, and, without knowing it, shares the same uncertainty. "Salamanca 21 is The Human Comedy in a world of 280 characters."