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La muerte de Ausencio, padre borracho y desobligado, desata los demonios que habitan dentro de Arturo, su hijo mayor, quien a raíz de esta pérdida caerá por una espiral de tristeza, remordimientos y desesperación, que lo llevará a enfrentar el mismo vicio que opacó las posibilidades de felicidad en su niñez y juventud. El luto se convierte en una sombra que se cierne sobre todas sus acciones y sus pensamientos, y su presente se vuelve un continuo deambular a través de los malos recuerdos y los negros augurios. El abandono y la degradación al que lo conduce el alcohol lo malquistan con el pueblo y sus seres queridos. Ausencio es la historia de un descenso al infierno, el del hijo que teme repetir los errores del padre, el de un joven al que parecen seguir tres fantasmales mujeres para anunciarle un destino aciago, el de un hombre que huye y se expone a la intemperie de sí mismo, al rostro de su muerte. The novel begins when Arturo attends his father's funeral. Although the family and friends mourn the deceased, the protagonist can not feel sorry for that death, and that guilt will eventually lead to the same vice that killed his father. His life will become a slow labyrinth in whose center rests the threatening beast of alcohol, from which he seeks to flee, but to whose claws he returns for lack of will, for the moral wound that stings him. He will roam the bars of Oaxaca, through the streets and parks of Mexico City, will travel by roads and dirt roads to lose sight of what torments him: the belief that he is the true culprit of the death of his father. Hallucinations, premonitory dreams, ill-fated memories, devastating feelings. This novel narrates the fall of a man who is caught in alcoholism, and leads us through a calvary that is woven little by little, in every swallow and every bad decision, in every night of insomnia and every pit of despair that Arturo tries to palliate with more alcohol -- Publisher website.