The Guilty offers a brilliant reflection on the possibilities of the spoken word. The six stories and the novella that make up this volume have been written in the first person. A mariachi who is tired of his folkloric success, a window cleaner hanging from scaffolding, and traveller who adopts an iguana tell the stories they do not want to tell. With a high dose of humour, verbal precision and dramatic tension, Villoro is the voice of those who become guilty of literature in order to free themselves from the truth which pursues them.