'A deliciously menacing read which I just couldn't put down. Every word punches hard. This World Does Not Belong to Us treads the fine line between beauty and horror effortlessly.' Jan Carson, author of The RapturesSecrets and revenge converge in this chilling tale from a breakout new Latin American voiceMany years have passed since Lucas was expelled from his childhood home by Felisberto and Eloy, the two men who arrived uninvited and slowly, insidiously, made it their own. Now Lucas is back, fully grown and intent on claiming his rightful inheritance.But he is not interested in the house as it once was, in his mother's lovingly planted flowerbeds - now conquered by weeds - nor in the lavish portraits covering every wall. Lucas belongs to a darker world, one crawling with the only creatures he really trusts: insects. As the house crumbles before his eyes, Lucas turns to the allies of his underground kingdom to help him take revenge. Weaving together past and present like a spider's web, This World Does Not Belong to Us is a spine-tingling story of human greed, from a masterful new literary voice.

This World Does Not Belong to Us

Literature & Fiction

García Freire, Natalia

United States

Oneworld Publications

“One of the debut novels that most stood out this year in Latin America.” ―New York Times 
Lucas was just a child when his father sold him to another farmer as a laborer. Years later, Lucas returns, full of resentment and burning for revenge. 
After years away, Lucas returns uninvited to the home he was expelled from as a child. The garden has been conquered by weeds, which blanket his mother’s beloved flowerbeds and his father’s grave alike. A lot has changed since Eloy and Felisberto were invited into the family home to work for Lucas’s father, long ago. The two hulking strangers have brought the land and everyone on it under their control―and removed nuisances like Lucas. Now everything rots. Lucas, a hardened young man, turns to a world that thrives in dirt and darkness: the world of insects. In raw, lyrical prose, García Freire portrays a world brought low by human greed, while hinting at glimmers of hope in the unlikeliest places.

Literary

World Editions

Madrid. 21 cm. 151 páginas. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'La navaja suiza', numero coleccion(11). García Freire, Natalia 1991-. Novelas .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 9788412008937

Nuestra piel muerta

Genre Fiction

La Navaja Suiza Editores

Trajiste contigo el viento

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