The Goblins of Eros A Novel by: Warren Eyster

A Tale of revolution and vengeance in primitive western Mexico!

This is a story of Mexico- of a people overwhelmed by their past, confused by their present and desperately unconcerned about their future. Here are the townsfolk of Las Iguanas, who have lived in the desert for too many generations. They are human beings who have lost their past.
The Goblins of Eros is a story of their revolution, its causes and its violent consequences. Through this novel you will meet some fantastic characters who will become etched in your memory and some pathetic and noble souls who will take hold of your mind and heart.
Eduardo Zamora is young, inexperienced, lonely. During his stay in Las Iguanas he rises to manhood. Dr. Argello is a disillusioned man who still holds to principles of honor and justice and takes life too seriously among a people who believe they are the playthings of the gods. Surrounding Argello and Eduardo are the old aristocrats, Grandmother Zamora and Senor Romero. And over all these fall the shadows of evil- the Governor, the General, and the Revolutionary. There are also the passionate daughters of Romero, the primitive Huitchole Indians and the infinitely diverse natives of Las Iguanas. And like a star in the Mexican sky is Juan Viste, the people's hero, born a hundred years too late, when his white horse with the silver trappings will not avail.
In The Goblin of Eros Warren Eyster has done what has up to now seemed impossible for a North American author. With deep understanding for the passions and problems of Mexicans, he has told in real and human terms the tale of a land and a people who are helplessly trapped between comedy and pathos.

About the Author:

Warren Eyster was born in Steelton, Pennsylvania, in 1925. Except for brief periods, he lived with his grandfather until he was seventeen. He was graduated from high school in Steelton at that age and took a job with the Army Air Corps as a hydraulic repairman. In 1942 he joined the Navy.
After the war he worked at many different jobs, primarily in factories. About this time he decided to go to college, and after some preparatory work at Harrisburg Academy, he entered Gettysburg College. Two years later he was graduated from Gettysburg. Then he attended graduate school at the University of Virginia.
It was during this time that he started writing. His first novel, Far from the Customary Skies, was published in 1953, and his second, No Country for Old Men, in 1955.
He married in 1954, has a daughter, Hope, and is at present living in Millboro, Virginia. He recently returned from Mexico, where he spent two years on a literary fellowship at the Centro Mexicano de Escritores.

The Goblins of Eros
Random House, New York
Copyright 1957, by Warren Eyster