Like all Chileans, Crabby spoke in a singsong way, her voice vibrating in her nose. She laughed at everything, even celebrity deaths, and made cruel jokes. She drank red wine until she collapsed in snores, only to wake up barefoot because someone had stolen her shoes. She ate empanadas and sea urchin tongues in green sauce seasoned with fresh, extra-hot chili. Whenever the cops beat a “political agitator” to death, she turned a blind eye, pretending not to notice. Actually she wasn’t Chilean but Lithuanian.

This is the first paragraph of Albina and the Dog-Men, the new book by 87 year old chilean author and movie director Alejandro Jodorowsky. TrendEngel hasn’t read an intro like this in a while – captivating and addictive in the blink of an eye. Just amazing. The ultimate piece of Jodorowsky arcana, a mind-bending adventure story on par with his wildest cinematic visions.… A surrealist novel par excellence, Albina and the Dog-Men is a dream, a prophecy, a hallucination, and a transfiguration such as only Jodorowsky could induce. And for what it’s worth: Marina Abramovich loves the book as well…