The Head

Racked with guilt over a car accident that has left his wife Gloria horribly disfigured, Daniel is confronted at all moments by the call of the flesh and his duty as a husband. Enter Ezekiel, his insane brother, who has designed a machine that solves the mind-body dilemma with gruesome simplicity. A science fiction tale of rare intensity and biblical undertones, and a erotic novel all rolled into one. At times funny, sexy, disturbing and eye-opening. This is Cabiya at his very best. Published in English for the first time in a wonderful translation by Daniela Paiewonsky. “Cabiya weaves, via a formidable fusion of the erotic novel and the science fiction tale, a plot (as sordid as it is irresistible) around sexual desire and its alibis in this ciber-melancholic era of the virtual body. Casual, unfazed, armed with the exquisite cruelty that characterizes his supple and meticulous prose, this short novel proves once more that we are dealing with one of the most original and capable storytellers of the Caribbean.” Rubén Ríos Ávila

From the Back Cover

To read Cabiya in almost all his works, and this one in particular, is to understand the tragedy of man... and that is always heart-rending. Mónica VolonteriPedro Cabiya is an incredible intellectual and literary force in Caribbean letters; The Head, a calibrated tribute to pulp fiction, confirms this. Mayra Santos FebresPedro Cabiya is a genius... Rita Indiana Hernández

About the Author

Pedro Cabiya is a writer, poet and filmmaker. He is the author of the seminal short fiction books Historias tremendas (Isla Negra 1999), Historias atroces (Isla Negra 2003) and the novels La cabeza (Isla Negra 2005), Trance (Editorial Norma 2007), Saga de Sandulce (Editorial Norma 2009) and Malas hierbas (Zemí Book 2011); all have acquired cult status. He has published the poetry books Crazy X-ray Boomerang Girl (Evil Ministries Press 2013), Phantograms (Evil Ministries Press 2013) and Rayos XXX (Zemí Book 2014). He has participated in numerous anthologies such as La Cervantiada, Manual de fin de siglo, El arca, Literatura puertorriqueña del Siglo XX, En el ojo del huracán and others. He has lived in Spain, the United States, Haiti and Puerto Rico. He currently lives in Santo Domingo.

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