Download or read book Under the Jaguar Sun written by Italo Calvino and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able only to listen to the sounds around him - sure that any deviation from their normal progression would mean the uprising of the conspirators that surround him. And three different men search desperately for the beguiling scents of lost women, from a Count visiting Madame Odile's perfumery, to a London drummer stepping over spent, naked bodies.