Daniel Saldaña París is an essayist, poet and novelist whose work has been translated into English, French and Swedish, and anthologized, most recently in Mexico20: New Voices, Old Traditions. Saldaña París has published two collections of poetry: Esa pura materia (That Pure Matter, awarded the Jaime Reyes Prize for Young Poets in 2007) and La máquina autobiográfica (The Autobiographical Machine). He is also the creator of Universal method of Derived Poetry, which features urban tours taking a poetic text as the point of departure. This project was included as an transmedia work in the Sixth Public Art Forum “Siqueiros” in Mexico City in 2009. Among Strange Victims is his first novel to appear in the United States and Canada. He lives in Montreal, Quebec. Daniel Saldaña París’ appearance is made possible by the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes de Mexico.

Among Strange Victims

Slackers meets Savage Detectives in this polyphonic ode to the pleasures of not measuring up. Rodrigo likes his vacant lot, its resident chicken and being left alone. But when passivity finds him accidentally married to Cecilia, he trades Mexico City for the sun-bleached desolation of his hometown. And he trades domestic life with Cecilia for the debauched company of a poet, a philosopher, and Micaela, whose allure includes the promise of time travel.

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