Death on Rua Augusta

Death on Rua Augusta is a book-length verse novel by the acclaimed Mexican poet Tedi Lopez Mills, translated from the Spanish.

 It follows Gordon, a man in suburban Fullerton, California, who suffers a breakdown at his office when words and numbers come apart in his mind. Retired and returned home to his wife Donna, he fills notebooks with drawings and diary entries, attended by a mysterious figure called 'Anonymous' who appears as he writes. Through fragmented, stream-of-consciousness verse, the book probes memory, identity and the slippage between documentation and reality. First published in Spanish as Muerte en la rua Augusta, it won Mexico's 2009 Xavier Villaurrutia Award.