Totally different from 760 above, unless I have misunderstood 760. This is quite a serious and challenging book, about a father murdering his son who is a gay transvestite, which offends his father. But it is quite a big exploration of homosexuality and art, and features a fictional (I assume) gay Cuban playwright who travels to Paris in the 1970’s and meets Sartre and de Beauvoir. (Indeed Conde, a novelist manqué, writes a brilliant parody of Camus in the book). Lots of reference to Greek classical drama, and the father’s motive for murder is exposure by his son for some historical crime. So it is tied up neatly as a detective novel.
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