From the psychomagical guru who brought you The Holy Mountain and Where the Bird Sings Best comes a supernatural love-and-horror story in which a beautiful albino
giantess unleashes the slavering animal lurking inside the men of a
Chilean village.
A darkly funny, surreal novel set in Chile and Peru, Albina and the Dog-Men is Alejandro Jodorowsky’s sprawling modern myth in which sexual desire
appears as a dangerous and generative force that mutates and transforms, unraveling identities and rending the social and moral fabric of a
small town.
Written with the stunning vision and cinematic flair he brought to his cult 1970s psychedelic freak-out films El Topo and The Holy Mountain, Jodorowsky turns the classic stranger-comes-to-town narrative on its head in his novel Albina and the Dog-Men. When two women — beautiful amnesiac albino giantess and her protector, a leather-tough woman called Crabby — arrive in this South American desert
town, Albina’s otherworldly allure and unfettered sensuality turns men
into wild animals. Chased at the same time by a clubfoot criminal,
Albina and Crabby must fend off their aggressors before the town
consumes itself in an orgy of lust and violence.
A modern-day Kafka story on hallucinogens, with strong doses of mysticism and horror, Albina and the Dog-Men reads like an ancient folk tale whispered at night, fused with an
urgent critique of contemporary society and gender relations. Woven
through a Jodorowskian fabric of killer bees, enchanted parrots,
witches, prostitutes, midgets, omnisexual couplings and men gone canine
is a universal story of love against the odds and the things that make
us human.
