Ciudades desiertas

Ciudades desiertas is a 1982 novel written in Spanish by Mexican author José Agustín. It is a mature work set in a small city in the United States around the early 1980s.

Plot

Ciudades desiertas is the story of Susana, a female Mexican writer fleeing her home to attend an international workshop in the United States, leaving her husband Eligio behind and completely unaware of her whereabouts. A hot-tempered intellectual with a somewhat cynical and misanthropic sense of humor, he works his way to catch up with his wife, arguing to have only done so to find out why exactly Susana left.

Roberto Sneider's 2016 feature-length film Me estás matando, Susana is based on the novel.