Under the Volcano Novel by Malcolm Lowry

Set on the Day of the Dead, the novel follows the final, tragic day of Geoffrey Firmin, a brilliant but deeply alcoholic former British consul living in a small Mexican town. As his estranged wife arrives in a desperate bid to save him, his hallucinatory descent into self-destruction mirrors the geopolitical doom of a world on the brink of World War II. Told through a dense stream-of-consciousness style, it is a devastating exploration of addiction, spiritual purgatory, and tragic fate.