The Desert and Its Seed Alzheimer's & dementia With over 70

With over 70

the most important work for us all

brilliantly annotated and introduced by David M

on display in Stuttgart

where she’s been or how she came to live in Rome

The Desert and Its Seed Alzheimer's & dementia With over 70The Desert and Its Seed opens with a taxi ride to the hospital: Eligia's face is disintegrating from acid thrown by her ex husband while they signed divorce papers. Mario, her son, tries to wipe the acid from Eligia's face, but his own fingers burn. What follows is a fruitless attempt to reconstruct Eligia's face first in Buenos Aires, thereafter in Milan. Mario, the narrator, becomes the shadow and witness of the reconstruction attempts to repair his