Some people considered the novel controversial because it freely touched (and portrayed) topics like abortion and sex, but the writers' community praised it immensely.
Despite the narrator's intellectual tone, the book was a huge editorial success, establishing José Agustín as a respected and profitable writer.
Set in Mexico City in the 1960s, the main character, Gabriel Guía, is a teenager holding a somewhat cynical and disenchanted view of life and himself.
The importance of La tumba is that the author invented a new narrative concept, with a different sensitivity, a colloquial, fresh and totally uncensored (for the time) language.
[1] The main character is Gabriel Guía, a teenage high school student, son of a rich couple in Mexico City.