Sergio Ramírez's latest novel, The Golden Horse, is a story that turns on itself to tell and discount, say and unsay. A fairy tale plot spills over and sets into motion, dressed and undressed, with an injured princess under the walls of a ruined castle.

Desires, espionage, fatality, hugs, poisons, kitchens, hairdressers and commercial agents rise and fall. The imagination is feverish, life is disparate and has its colors. Everything is possible, because everything smells like chocolate.