Soledad awakes to find herself invisible, standing in the middle of Mexico City. Is she really invisible, or have others just stopped seeing her? Prisoner of her passions--to change identity, to be the object of someone's desire, to disappear--Soledad always ends up with her wishes coming true, but along with their dark, unforeseen side. This novel describes the undercurrents of the mysterious, often cruel streets of downtown Mexico City, where the blind can see, ghosts talk to those who will listen, and shadows both ancient and modern meld together to create this initiation into sex, love and madness.

Desire and Its Shadow

Literature & Fiction

ANA CLAVEL

Contemporary

Aliform Publishing

Antonia wakes up one day a man, or at least in the body of one. Is identity more than skin deep? Does sexuality begin with desire, and if so, what desire has left her shipwrecked on such a strange island, inside such a complicated labyrinth as the male body? Set against the backdrop of downtown Mexico City, this novel explores a very male world from the perspective of a hidden observor.

Shipwrecked Body

Aliform Pub

El amor no es como lo pintan, tiene garras, unas veces es ingenuo y otras metaforico, pero casi siempre emerge fascinante y, a la vez, terrible. Desde distintos laberintos y pliegues, los cuentos de Amor y otros suicidios se rebelan contra la idea de un paraiso convencional y reclaman, con fiereza y cierta dosis de ironia, un pequeno lugar entre las arenas del desencanto y el deseo. La experiencia narrativa de Ana Clavel queda vertida en estos relatos, en donde los personajes descubren que el amor parece ser un homicidio que perpetramos cada dia o una condena asumida de manera voluntaria. Si Tho-mas de Quincey vio en el crimen una de las bellas artes, la autora retrata al amor como una de las bellas muertes que, una vez asumida la expulsion de todo paraiso, sobrevive como una instantanea de la eternidad. / Love is not as it looks. It s sometimes naïve, fascinating and terrible. Ana Clavel discovers that love seems to be homicide and perpetrates condemn voluntarily assumed. If Thomas de Quincey saw the crime as one of the fine arts, the author portrays love as one of the beautiful deaths that, once assumed the expulsion of paradise, survives as a snapshot of eternity.

Amor y otros suicidios (Spanish Edition)

Short Stories & Anthologies

Ediciones B.

Antonia is suddenly transformed into a man. As Anton, the main character begins a journey of exploration, full of mishaps and doubts, into its new sexuality. Curious of the workings of his new organs, Anton develops a strange fixation with urinals. His encounters with both men and women that, depending on the viewpoint, could be considered as gay or lesbian, lead us to question what we currently understand and accept as the differences between genders. Description in spanish: Una mujer, Antonia, se transforma repentinamente en hombre, Antón, con las consecuentes vicisitudes, dudas, y exploraciones. Sus nuevos órganos genitales le son desconocidos en muchos aspectos, desde la forma de asearlos hasta la forma de ejercitarlos en la sexualidad. Antón-Antonia desarrolla una fijación por los mingitorios y explora encuentros con hombres y mujeres, que paradójicamente podrían calificarse de lésbicos o gay, según la óptica. Las supuestas diferencias de género terminan en entredicho.

Cuerpo Naufrago (Spanish Edition)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Alfaguara

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