When a person is surrounded by desert, it turns his life into a struggle. If there is desert in the soul, happiness becomes an unattainable dream. This is the main idea of Luis Rivera's novel "The Snake Catcher". The hot sun and scorched earth, fights with poisonous snakes and the search for the Dead City, wealth and love, death and fear... The snake catcher must go through all this so that the desert in the soul turns into blooming garden. “You cannot become happy by taking possession of what you are destined to lose sooner or later,” says the mysterious hunchback. “To find happiness, you need to give it up,” says the strange jester. “You have lost everything. But I found even more...” - this is the conclusion the snake catcher comes to. This is perhaps one of the most mysterious and mystical novels by Luis Rivera. After reading it, no answers appear... But questions disappear.