Asmodeo, un demonio milenario de poderes menguantes, abandona el cuerpo del rockero cuarentón en el que vive para buscar uno más joven. En ese accidentado periplo, que lleva al malogrado Asmodeo a rebotar de un huésped a otro, se va armando una compleja trama que nos sumerge en el abigarrado territorio emocional del Santo Domingo de 1992: desde la escena del heavy metal local hasta la casa de un extorturador al servicio de la dictadura de Balaguer.Las infernales vidas de los humanos se enredan así con las maquinaciones de ángeles y demonios en esta crónica alucinada de un pedazo de la historia dominicana. Comedia armada a partir de una madeja de tragedias, ópera metal en exquisitas décimas, Asmodeo suena a Héctor Lavoe y a Black Sabbath, pero también a picaresca y a Siglo de Oro.
Asmodeus, an ancient demon with waning powers, abandons the body of the forty-something rocker in which he has been living for decades to look for a younger one. In that eventful journey, which leads the ill-fated Asmodeus to bounce from one guest to another, a complex plot is put together that immerses us in the motley emotional territory of Santo Domingo in 1992: from the local heavy metal scene to the house of an extorturer at the service of the Balaguer dictatorship. The infernal lives of humans thus become entangled with the crazy machinations of angels and demons in this hallucinated chronicle of a piece of Dominican history. Comedy put together from a skein of tragedies, metal opera in exquisite tenths, Asmodeo sounds like Héctor Lavoe and Black Sabbath, but also like picaresque and Siglo de Oro. Quevedian and Calderonian to the core, this novel demonstrates that the Diablo Cojuelo took up residence in the Afro-Antillean Caribbean. With a unique style in which the most radical gestures coexist with a serene classicism, Asmodeo confirms that Rita Indiana is one of the fundamental authors of contemporary Latin American literature.
