An astonishing work of creative non-fiction from one one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, that reignites the brilliant spark of a young woman erased and illuminates an epidemic of femicide in Mexico\nOn the dawn of 16 July 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, Cristina Rivera Garza's sister, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend and subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of femicide. She was a twenty-year-old architecture student who had been trying for years to end her relationship with a high school boyfriend who insisted on not letting her go. A few weeks before the tragedy, Liliana made a definitive decision: at the height of her winter she had discovered that, as Albert Camus had said, there was an invincible summer in her. She would leave him behind. She would start a new life. She would do a master's degree and a doctorate; she would travel to London. But his decision was that she would not have a life without him.\nReturning to Mexico after decades of living in the United States, Cristina Rivera Garza collects and curates evidence - handwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, voice recordings and architectural blueprints - to defy a pattern of increasingly normalised, gendered violence and understand the life lost. What she finds is Liliana: her sister's voice crossing time and, like that of so many disappeared and outraged women in Mexico, demanding justice.\nA multi-layered portrait of Liliana's experience on earth, Liliana's Invincible Summer is an excavation of the life of a brilliant woman who lacked, like everyone else, the necessary language to identify, denounce and fight against sexist violence and intimate partner terrorism. Marshalling the skills of scholar, translator, novelist and poet, Rivera Garza presents an astonishing work of creative non-fiction that celebrates her sister's passage through the earth, and reveals the incalculable problem of violence against women.

Lilianas Invincible Summer

CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA

Bloomsbury Publishing

On a dark and stormy night, an unnamed narrator is visited by two women: one a former lover, the other a stranger. They ruthlessly question their host and claim to know his greatest secret: that he is, in fact, a woman. In increasingly desperate attempts to defend his masculinity, perplexed by the stranger's dubious claims to be the writer Amparo Davila, he finds himself spiralling deeper into a haunted past that may or may not be his own. This surreal novel enfolds a masterful exploration of gender in taut, atmospheric mystery.

Iliac Crest

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

And Other Stories

The Taiga Syndrome

Literary

En el paradigmático año de 1989 se publica, póstumamente, L’In- fra-ordinaire (Lo infraordinario, 2008), de Georges Perec (1936-1982), un libro que coincide con el derrumbe de las grandes narrativas. En él, Perec nos advierte acerca de lo banal, lo ordinario, y lo habitual, los ruidos de fondo, los restos, y lo evidente, y se pregunta cómo ex- plicarlo, cómo interrogarlo, cómo describirlo. A lo infraordinario, Perec le otorgó un estatus distinto a eso que parecía aburrido, sin im- portancia o valor alguno, y lo propuso como una tentativa para vivir con la curiosidad crítica y festiva, y desde luego feroz, de lo nuevo y lo banal. De forma parecida, los infraensayos aquí reunidos de Cristi- na Rivera Garza indagan y ahondan en lo que implica escribir hoy a partir de una reconsideración de la minucia cotidiana del trabajo, el quehacer del cuerpo, y el continuo escudriñar de los grumos que so- brevuelan el desastre cotidiano de violencia horrísona.

Lo roto precede a lo entero. 125 Infraensayos (Spanish Edition)

Literal Publishing

El invencible verano de Liliana (Spanish Edition)

Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial

Adentrarse en la geografia de estos relatos es experimentar una variedad de los registros que sacuden al mundo, al suspenso de las desapariciones insolitas: a uno no solo se le pierde la cabeza, sino tambien la mano en un descuido. Nos acercamos al encuentro de la intelectualidad universitaria y el sexo primitivo. Sentimos el vacio claustrofobico del miedo durante un secuestro para luego quedar envueltos en la violencia y el enigma. El cuerpo y el crimen avanzan entrelazados en la geografia poetica de estas historias que nos llevan a dar un paseo por el Apocalipsis y el reconocimiento del yo. Debajo de unos labios o de la punta de un arma, los personajes hablan con el atropellado frenesi del condenado a muerte o del amante. Cruzamos los bordes de la ciencia ficcion, el ensayo, la narrativa policial y el erotismo, para reintegrarnos en un imaginario inquietante, en una intriga cuyo pulso no se detiene ni en la ultima pagina.

La frontera mas distante (Spanish Edition)

Short Stories & Anthologies

Tusquets Editores

Una inclemente noche de tormenta, alguien llama a la puerta de una casa enclavada en un agreste y solitario lugar frente al oceano. Su dueno, un medico dedicado a paliar el dolor de los enfermos terminales y que trabaja en un mortecino hospital denominado Granja del Buen Descanso, abre la puerta sin sospechar que, cuando deje entrar a aquella joven desconocida que aguarda en el umbral, su vida va a transformarse de modo irreversible. La joven, que dice llamarse Amparo Davila, se instala en la casa con la autoridad de los fantasmas. Ademas, poco despues hace su aparicion una segunda mujer, una antigua amante del protagonista, a la que este abandono tiempo atras. Que extranos vinculos unen a ambas mujeres?, pero, sobre todo, que episodio del pasado atormenta al medico, cada vez mas aislado de la realidad que le rodea?    /    A harsh stormy night someone knocks at the door of a house set in a wild and lonely place by the ocean. Its owner, a doctor dedicated to alleviate the pain of the terminally ill and dying, who works at a hospital called Good Rest Farm, opens the door not knowing that, when he allows to go in that unknown girl waiting in the doorway, his life will be irreversibly transformed.

La cresta de Ilion (Spanish Edition)

Tusquets México

El mal de la taiga (Spanish Edition)

Tusquets

Nadie me verá llorar (Spanish Edition)

Nadie me verá llorar

TUSQUETS EDITORES - MEXICO

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