By Laura Esquivel

Author of Like Water for Chocolate

“Fusion of science fiction and adventure-romance attempts to produce a multimedia ‘event’ that narrates through comic-strip panels and period music on accompanying CD. New Age tracts, Precolumbian poetry, Puccini arias, and tedious plots never achieve narrative coherence in spite of Peden’s adequate translation”–Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/After one night of passion, Azucena, an Astros analyst in twenty-third-century Mexico City, is separated from her Twin Soul, Rodrigo, and journeys across the galaxy and through past lives to find her lost love, encountering a deadly enemy along the way