Category: ALMADIA
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Troika
Read moreTitle Troika Author Zapata, Isabel Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851614 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 200 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis With whom and why do we form our deepest bonds? Where are the words that speak of life after the death of a body we love? And how do we deal with absence? In Isabel Zapata's first novel, the observation of details that we sometimes call poetry and the precision of the words of those who have explored silence coexist delicately, as if on an altar of language. Divided into halves that are like two sides of the same coin, Troika tells the extraordinary relationship between a girl and her dog, the story of a woman who travels to another city to find work and try to survive the mourning with her dead, and how their lives become fatally intertwined. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
No contiene armonías
Read moreTitle No contiene armonías Author López Mills, Tedi Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851539 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 136 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis What does it mean to contemplate the world in a room full of everyday objects where cats, neighbors, social media, or furniture become a subtext for reflection on the real and imaginary? What lies at the intersection of morality, interpretation, absence, time, and existence itself? Divided into five counter-songs, No Contain Harmonies is a book that investigates the evolution of poetry, the use of language, consciousness, guilt, reality, and memory. From reflections on the use of conscience as a shield to debates between poets on political issues and subsidies for poetry, a rhapsody on the word "compass" or intimate scenes and introspective moments that mix philosophy and poetic images, this collection of poems by Tedi López Mills tries to inhabit, from what remains in the words, the nature of an existence where the dividing line between reality and imagination begins to fade, where dark forces seem to attack human intelligence. With a language devoid of flourishes, the voice that runs through No contains harmonies forces us, with ironic melancholy, to rethink our place in the world, which is also the place we inhabit through words. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Nuestro mundo muerto
Read moreTitle Nuestro mundo muerto Author Colanzi, Liliana Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764877 Edition number 2 Publication year 2024 Pages 136 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis With great force and a very particular violence, Liliana Colanzi places the reader on the threshold of several worlds: the earthly and the fantastic, science fiction and indigenous idiosyncrasy, memory and nightmare. Making her stories mechanisms in which rural songs and testimonies of ethnographic studies operate, the Bolivian author constructs atmospheres in which there is always a longing - whether for home, childhood or even our planet - that is the product of the encounter with that which seems foreign to us, but where what is longed for contains at the same time illness and poverty, mystery and death. Thus, the magic of exoticized Latin America is replaced by the crudeness of the Colony and extractivism, by fanaticism and superstition. A woman on a colonization mission on Mars, someone waiting for her lover in a Paris hotel, a young man possessed by the murderous impulse of a Mataco Indian, are some of the characters that inhabit these stories, in which fantasy dissolves into terror and suspense. With this collection, the reader has the opportunity to witness the emergence of one of the most powerful voices from the south of the continent on the Mexican literary scene. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Asesina íntima
Read moreTitle Asesina íntima Author Esquinca, Bernardo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851188 Edition number 2 Publication year 2024 Pages 264 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Between 2003 and 2006, the corpses of elderly women appeared in lonely rooms in Mexico City, victims of a particular cruelty. One of the most venerated symbols of the Mexican idiosyncrasy had become prey to an elusive anger. With authorities incapable of putting a stop to this succession of murders, indignation and fear spread throughout the city. Thus arose the legend of the Mataviejitas, an entity created by crime news and urban folklore as responsible for the mysterious crimes. Faithful to his most notable obsessions, and without fear of exploring new narrative territories, Bernardo Esquinca returns to dissect this peculiar media phenomenon. Through the voices of various characters involved in the case – an obsessive criminalist, a gluttonous investigator, ambitious police agents, a committed crime reporter – the Mexican master of terror constructs an ambitious and ferocious polyphonic novel thanks to which we also learn the story of Chana Barrera, the woman behind the legend; an enigmatic wrestling fan who, after seeing all her hopes shattered, decides to undertake one last, brutal attempt to avoid ending up, herself, surrendered on the canvas. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Periferia
Read moreTitle Periferia Author Del Ángel, Diana Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851621 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 128 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In these disturbing stories by Diana del Ángel, the fantastic merges with the everyday in a powerful brevity that only the best storytellers can achieve. Thanks to forced meditations, useless institutions or million-dollar companies that sell the unthinkable, we get closer to the terrifying presence of mystery in everyday life. As a sample of the discourses that exist outside, Periferia brings together the voices of the incomparable: here yogis, bosses, healers, public transport, academics and hitmen have something in common. They reveal with severity and irony the great contradictions of modern cities; what we are letting pass, what is already beyond our hands and what those who study humanity in the future will say about us—if the world survives. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Poemas para otakus
Read moreTitle Poemas para otakus Author Llamas Dinero, Paola Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851553 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 176 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Remember your first love: who was the recipient of your most pristine desire? Was it not, perhaps, the character of an anime? Poems for otakus is a journey through emotions and stories that blur the border between reality and fiction. If by watching Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon or Ranma ½ we are able to experience feelings for characters that do not exist, it can be said that fantasy and its sweetness have begun to have an impact on the world of the flesh. And doesn't something similar happen when we fall in love with the idealization of a person, or on social networks, where we design the fictionalization of our identities? Paola Llamas Dinero takes words, images and emojis from the street, cartoons, music and chats, recognizing that it is with these signs that we build the story of the giants who trample on the tranquility of our universe and the heroes who save it. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Mañana ya no hablaremos de nada
Read moreTitle Mañana ya no hablaremos de nada Author Bizarro, Montse Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851638 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 192 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The characters in this story cling to friendship in a world that has robbed them of their future, while inhabiting a vibrant Barcelona where drugs, violence and psychological challenges predominate. The protagonist faces the challenge of loving Lorena because, contrary to what she imagines, love at twenty is not a fairy tale, but an open wound that oozes jealousy, abandonment and frustration. With a dizzying pace and stark writing that challenges readers, Mañana ya no hablaremos de nada exposes how neurodiversity determines our perception of the world – the street, love, fun, self-concept – and relationships with others. Montse Bizarro shows us with skill, sensitivity and compassion that we live in an era in which psychological stability has become a precious commodity. And, in the face of the relentless self-exploitation of our time, she poses a crucial question: who has intact mental health? foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Una pequeña fiesta llamada Eternidad
Read moreTitle Una pequeña fiesta llamada Eternidad Author Wiener, Gabriela Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851546 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 88 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Writing, like living without dreams in the rising heat or working without limits, migrating violently from one country to another or growing up knowing that the future of the world is unviable, hurts. In A Little Party Called Eternity, through an uncontrollable voice that is formed in the midst of transition through the metropolis — in the bathroom, in the bar, unemployed, up late and hungry — Gabriela Wiener urgently invites us to the party of language as if only there, in language or in the party, there existed a substance strong enough to continue inhabiting this planet. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Retrofuturismos
Read moreTitle Retrofuturismos Author Yaszek, Lisa Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851522 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 240 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis How much does our present resemble the future imagined by the writers of the last century? Does enthusiasm or caution regarding the use of technology persist? Have our problems changed, or is it that our dreams, fears and wounds remain? Under the title Retrofuturisms, the second installment of the collection The Future is Woman! brings together stories written between 1931 and 1966 by Sonya Dorman, Leslie F. Stone, Elizabeth Mann Borgese, Margaret St. Clair, Leigh Brackett, Carol Emshwiller, Rosel George Brown, Leslie Perri, Katherine MacLean and Andrew North, which allow us to explore the tensions between the future and the past through stories in the purest pulp style, centered on adventures in space. The first alien civilization that won a war against humans; a species of extraterrestrials that comes to Earth to share its knowledge but faces a violent and racist human population; a hunting dog in the middle of an existential dilemma on a frozen planet; Space travelers who contract strange diseases; a genderless civilization that disguises itself to coexist with humans; mothers who must maintain harmony between their children when a child from another planet joins their carpool; reckless women who do not hesitate to perform heroic acts in space. These stories demonstrate that science fiction writing is a great exercise in empathy. The writers in this collection imagined new worlds based on understanding and solidarity with other beings, perhaps based on knowing themselves to be representatives of a certain otherness in their time. The stories contained here reaffirm that moving the conventional center of the stories we tell not only refreshes our narratives, but invites us to move our own center and thus glimpse new discussions and ways of living in community. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
El libro de los dioses
Read moreTitle El libro de los dioses Author Esquinca, Bernardo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764785 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 200 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis What kind of person lets a monster lull them to sleep? In this collection of short stories – the most extensive and ambitious that its author has undertaken to date – there are questions that will put the sanity of those who delve into its pages at risk. Whether it is the mysterious message engraved on the skin of a whale, the tragedies predicted in the oil paintings of an eccentric painter, the strange and hypnotic music that emanates from a baby chair or the terrorism exercised by an environmental group that worships the god Pan, Bernardo Esquinca knows clearly where to dig to find the precise point where fantasy and horror converge. Without a doubt, this collection will alert to the extreme the senses of those readers who lost sleep with the stories of The Trilogy of Terror and those who have been left breathless by the mysteries of the Casasola Saga. Furthermore, The Book of the Gods presents a notable expansion of the borders of Bernardo Esquinca's personal universe; the renewal of an entire imaginary of the sinister. Thanks to the simple premise of this volume, the permanence of the ancient gods in the skeptical urban present, the reader can be sure that in these pages he will find the material of his future nightmares. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Ciudad Láser
Read moreTitle Ciudad Láser Author Correa, Mariantuá Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851676 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 152 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis One cold, wet afternoon, after leaving work at the Ciudad Láser beauty center, Soledad prepares to return home, but never arrives at her destination. Giselle Horn, a detective about to retire, descends into the depths of a city that has forgotten its people, to follow the trail of someone who took a deep secret with him. Meanwhile, Raúl, her boyfriend, finds himself dragged into an existence darkened by guilt. As the investigation progresses, Soledad's absence pushes Horn to delve into his own past to find the answers, because in a reality where nothing is what it seems and the illusion of freedom consumes itself, sometimes it is necessary to retrace steps to unravel the mystery. On the borders of the noir novel, Ciudad Láser is a current x-ray of the corruption, machismo and perversion of desires that surround us. But above all, it is a truncated love story, where desire, and the lack that fuels it, tumble into a spiral of violence overshadowed by a disappearance. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Pantano
Read moreTitle Pantano Author Felker, Ana Emilia Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851706 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 200 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In the United States, the border does not end at the violent and hyper-surveilled riverbed of the Rio Grande; checkpoints persist within the territory in school hallways, on freshly cut grass where flags wave, in hospitals and in the kitchens of homes, in the parking lot of a Walmart. In the midst of the unprecedented increase in Latin American migration, attempts to contain it are intensified when racism and hate speech demand to be heard. In this scenario, Ana Emilia Felker decides to live four years in Houston to study for a doctorate. She knows that it will be difficult to feel at home in this country where war and death are negotiated with nationality and debt, but this land is also the place of origin and residence of half of her family. Setting out on a journey across water, desert, and highways, she questions how much the American dream costs, what defines whiteness, how to talk about mass shootings while respecting the dignity of the victims, while helping her grandfather sort out his stories and trying to reestablish with her father a conversation that seems stuck in the past. Through chronicles, essays, and personal diaries, Ana Emilia proposes a writing that is as intimate as it is rigorous to think about identity, question racism, and tell what happens when loved ones are separated by walls that cut across space, time, and desire. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Cartas a Dorothy
Read moreTitle Cartas a Dorothy Author Hinojosa, Francisco Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851683 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 88 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The narrator of this book has conveniently remained single. He lives very quietly with the inheritance left to him by his ex-concubine, in his spare time he writes poetry and thanks to his contacts he has a clear path to obtain a seat in the Chamber of Deputies. One bad day he falls in love with Dorothy: an American stewardess whose voice we never hear, but we fear for her as if she were our friend or our mother, because in this collection of letters, the dirty, crude, annoyingly real writing of Francisco Hinojosa speaks through that false poet as the worst scoundrels of the country speak: those men who think that women are theirs; who commit violence without guilt or care because they live the privileges of an unpunished country, and who perceive government positions as simple pastimes. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
El grillo
Read moreTitle El grillo Author Ortiz, Adalberto Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851690 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 40 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The Cricket is a story about music, colors, and dreams. A cricket plays his violin from the sky, next to the clouds and stars, but also in the park, near people's homes. His music is the flow of imagination. Told among wonderful illustrations by Mexican artist Gabriel Pacheco, this book—where stars have bodies and are transported on fish that live in the air or on land—introduces children to a poetic space that underlines the importance of dreams and invites us to think about the fleeting nature of all living things. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Deambular otra vez
Read moreTitle Deambular otra vez Author Almada, Selva; Rivera Garza, Cristina; Villalobos, Juan Pablo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851836 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 96 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The essays in this book trace her journey through solitary moments, shared experiences, and natural landscapes that invite us to follow the traces of imagination and writing, divided into three moments: stillness, walking, and sowing. Selva Almada takes us to her semi-rural retreat in Argentina, where nature and silence give meaning to the environment and to her relationship with words. Juan Pablo Villalobos discovers in a tree visible from his window in Barcelona a symbol of the passage of time and resistance, a metaphor for his own way of conceiving writing. Cristina Rivera Garza invites the reader to walk with her through the forests, parks, and gardens of Houston, to show us that Wandering Again is an act of discovery, a constant encounter with the world, imagination, and language. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Rituales para la amistad
Read moreTitle Rituales para la amistad Author Barrera, Jazmina; Liceaga, Elvira; Rea, Daniela Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851843 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 104 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis How do we describe the dynamics of friendships in childhood compared to adulthood? What are the challenges we face in maintaining friendships as time leaves a patina of dust on memories? Jazmina Barrera, Daniela Rea, and Elvira Liceaga invite us to trace the invisible paths of that form of love that is friendship, where each letter, each confession, and each silence reveal the fabric of human hearts. Through intimate correspondence, Rituals for Friendship opens up to explore the depths of affection, the scars of loss, and the reconciliations that inhabit memory. This book is both a celebration and a collective and living act, a dialogue that seeks to extend beyond the pages to invite us to think about our own bonds, our joys, and our longings. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Lenguaje inclusivo y exclusión de clase
Read moreTitle Lenguaje inclusivo y exclusión de clase Author Vasallo, Brigitte Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851454 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 200 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis What does it mean to talk about inclusion in linguistic terms? Who is included (and who is not) in the discourse that speaks (and why)? Can inclusive language solve the problem of structural exclusion of language, which is in turn the materialization of other structural and structuring exclusions of subjectivities (social class, race/ethnicity, possession of cultural capital, etc.), simply by using the “a,” the “e,” the “x,” the “@” or any other symbol? In this lucid text – a reference in Spain and which now extends the conversation to other latitudes in a revised and expanded edition, with a prologue by Yásnaya Aguilar – Brigitte Vasallo transcends the discussion on “linguistic incorrectness” and places the debate on inclusive language in the field of political practice. For Vasallo, the answer lies in finding a use of language that shows restlessness and generates noise, and thus, finding new ways of naming. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
La región crepuscular
Read moreTitle La región crepuscular Author Esquinca, Bernardo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851829 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 192 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis I could say that this novel is about Gregorio Cárdenas, the first serial murderer of modern Mexico, whose crimes shocked a country that was trying to leave behind the embers of the Revolution. But in reality it is something more: instead of just talking about the figure of the murderer, I was also interested in delving into the social context that fostered it, and that seems to be repeated today. In these pages there is an attempt to understand where the sexist violence that plagues Mexico comes from. Why were women forced to commit crimes in the 1940s? Why were there clandestine abortions that put the lives of dozens of girls at risk? Why do the chroniclers point out that it was a man –detective José Acosta Suárez– who caught Gregorio Cárdenas, when there was an agent, Ana María Dorantes, whose work was fundamental in the case, and who is now unjustly forgotten? Why are serial killers a cultural construct for which we are all responsible? This book is a portrait of that era known as the Alemanism, but it also involves the present in an important way, with the epidemic of feminicides that the State of Mexico is experiencing, where some of the bloodiest serial killers of recent years have been conceived. It is important to note that it is not pleasant to read this novel, but it could not be otherwise. The twilight region is precisely that place that we avoid turning around, because we believe that it is better not to see, to ignore what happens around us while the victims accumulate. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Algunas de estas cosas son ciertas
Read moreTitle Algunas de estas cosas son ciertas Author González, Vicky Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851782 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 200 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The protagonists of these stories are fragile men, unsatisfied wives, insecure and violent husbands, daughters who do not want to be mothers, submissive women on the verge of rebelling, misogynistic boys, girls who yearn for an independent life. Traveling between Mexico and Spain, between Monterrey and Barcelona, Some of These Things Are True portrays with a great deal of black humor the ridiculousness of social conventions, the asymmetry of romantic relationships, the fears and traumas that dominate us, uncontrollable passions, everyday machismo and classism. In a country accustomed to euphemisms, in a society addicted to secrets and in favor of concealment, Vicky González says the things that many of us think but do not dare to say, which is disturbing and, above all, hilarious. Twenty stories that reveal a writer with unusual acuity and extreme sensitivity to expose the lies, pretenses and hypocrisies of our time. There is only one thing more exciting than discovering a great writer: having seen her mature. I have been reading these stories for years, witnessing how this book was slowly taking shape, steeped in irony, aged in barrels of irreverence and tenderness. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Un dios con el estómago vacío
Read moreTitle Un dios con el estómago vacío Author Candeira, Matías Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851850 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 184 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In these stories, life is torn apart and leaves a trail of blood with drops of black comedy in the hallway. The patriarchs go to the beach with their children and ignore the apocalypse that is approaching on the horizon. The gods have awakened, they are hungry for human beings. Couples look every day at a hole in the wall of their house and wonder how long this happiness that never seems to run out will last. A young man mutates into a swarm of flies when he is fired and a couple argues with their son while burying him in the garden. Death lurks everywhere: in the form of a crack, a hole, a jaw that opens between the sea and the sky, embodied in a hitman who is waiting, or boarding a bus after a bad day tired of dealing with its responsibilities. At any moment it strikes. The protagonists of these stories are rabbits paralyzed in front of the headlights of a car that illuminates the absurd. Aware of the density of time and how short the fuse is, they see everything that slips through their fingers fall to pieces: love, happiness, home, identity, the plot. Matías Candeira spins poetry and tragedy very finely to display the acidic humor of the wound. Playing with language until the ridiculous and the sublime go hand in hand, he turns reality into a fracture; he challenges it with a distortion. Here, no one can be trusted anymore, much less the narrative voices that observe their characters under a microscope – and us along with them – with the cruelest and fiercest gaze while everything is about to blow up. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Isla partida
Read moreTitle Isla partida Author Tarazona, Daniela Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851287 Edition number 2 Publication year 2023 Pages 139 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In the corridors of this novel, a woman repeats and multiplies herself. She splits into two. One of them chooses to give up and escape; the other remains following her own trail. Something happens in her brain. In that trance, when her memories, dreams and fears intersect in a continuous present, they wonder if the pulse of their desire is to continue living. Isla partida is a fractal, polyhedral novel, a writing of delirium that portrays a thought beyond limits; a house of mirrors made of language. Can writing account for an overflowing mind and the creations of its electric discharges? This book is Daniela Tarazona's bravest and most risky work. A narrative and poetic experience in which body, memory and delirium come into tension to recompose the world and, therefore, the identity of the self. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Xolita en el Templo Mayor
Read moreTitle Xolita en el Templo Mayor Author Grañen Porrúa, Maria Isabel Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851218 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 128 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis A mysterious family adventure in which a girl, guided by her pet Xolita, crosses a time threshold to discover life in the capital of the Mexica empire. The protagonist wonders how to get back home, but her concern does not interest anyone. On the contrary, dangers lie in wait for her and the magic of the story traps the reader in the most unexpected outcomes. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Materia dispuesta
Read moreTitle Materia dispuesta Author Villoro, Juan Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851294 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 280 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis After the 1957 earthquake expelled his family from the cosmopolitan center of Mexico City, Mauricio Guardiola spent his childhood and adolescence on the streets of Terminal Progreso, a neighborhood embedded in the semi-rural landscape of Xochimilco that seems to have crystallized the promises of a bright future into simple nostalgia for the future. In the shadow of his father—a vehement and womanizing architect, obsessed with capturing Mexican identity in his buildings—and haunted by the edifying phrases his mother sticks on the refrigerator door, Mauricio begins his sexuality, friendship, love, and the search for a vocation through a series of characters who are shaped by their obsessions. But is it possible to acquire firm convictions on shaky ground? In a territory as hesitant as Mexico City, any certainty can seem absurd. With athletic prose and a great sense of humor, Juan Villoro constructs an ironic reverse of the coming-of-age novel in which adulthood is shown as a condition of inadequacy. More than twenty years after its first publication, Almadía reissues Materia funcionable, crucible of the obsessions and literary genius of one of the most recognized and beloved writers of the Spanish language. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Solo somos sombras
Read moreTitle Solo somos sombras Author José, Pergentino Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851300 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 120 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In the midst of a smallpox outbreak that threatens to decimate the population of a Zapotec community, Lisnit and Néstor must fight to make their professed love for each other possible. Victims of state violence, the lovers deal with the traumas of the anger inflicted on their bodies and their memory. After Hormigas rojas, his celebrated collection of short stories, Pergentino José has written a first novel in which Spanish, inoculated from one language to another – Zapotec – acquires a unique vitality and rhythm. Built from ellipses and fragments, Solo somos sombras is a book about the opacity of memory, the veils that time runs over it and the fate of evanescence to which it condemns us. With a stylistic strategy as risky as it is precise, José offers us the contours of an intense plot; the shadow in which, thanks to its density and lyricism, we are able to recognize urgent issues for our societies: the colonial past, the displacement of entire communities for the extraction of natural resources, the annihilation of non-capitalist cosmogonies and the trauma of dispossession and misery that these processes entail. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
La polca de los osos
Read moreTitle La polca de los osos Author Glantz, Margo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764662 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 408 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis This book is called The Bear Polka, a title that is perhaps enigmatic, it comes from a poem by Paul Celan, one of those obsessive poems by the poet: “Audible remains, visible remains in/ the thousand and one bedroom. Day and night/ the bear polka…”, verses that perhaps suggest a clumsy and bestial combat, at the same time the remains, what remains of what has been irrevocably lost and we would like to recover with nostalgia. And in reality, this is what my book is about: a book in which obsessive texts accumulate that complement and fight each other and give an account of several of my obsessions: eroticism, sexuality, discrimination, the struggle of women to have their own bodies, persecution, holocausts, the different and emerging forms of fascism that seems to never die completely, but rather recreate itself, to strike again. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
La compañia
Read moreTitle La compañia Author Gerber Bicecci, Verónica Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764860 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 216 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis “Any unhappy life can always become a hell,” Amparo Dávila once said in a story. La Compañía, by Verónica Gerber Bicecci, looks at this warning from its mirror: “any bonanza can always become an unhappy life,” by rewriting one of the most famous stories of the Zacatecan woman. As a premonition, this story reveals the psychological, environmental and social consequences that extractive projects produce in the territories where they are located. With photographs, diagrams, testimonies, reports and interviews, as well as elements of La máquina estética by the Zacatecan visual artist Manuel Felguérez, La Compañía reconstructs the history of Nuevo Mercurio, Zacatecas, a town where an abandoned and ruined mine haunts the collective memory. Writing appears here as an extractive gesture: a formal and conceptual exploration of the processes of dispossession involved in contemporary mining. This book avoids any precise classification and confirms that there is no category that suffices to describe the work of Verónica Gerber Bicecci: rewriting, photography, narrative, chronicle, fantastic story, science fiction. Writing appears here as a critical, formal and conceptual exploration of the processes of dispossession involved in contemporary mining. The Company haunts our present and embodies that monstrous creature that confronts us with the difficult question about the future. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Moisés en la llanura
Read moreTitle Moisés en la llanura Author Xuetao, Shuang Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851324 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 160 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Covered in snow, under the shadows that characterize the margins that progress has forgotten to illuminate, and guarded by the gaze of a gigantic concrete helmsman, these two short novels transport us to a cold city in the northeast of China. There, a murder weapon revives the case of a series of murders that went unsolved, and a man drowning in debt decides to show those he has defrauded that they were not wrong to trust him. With a lacerating sobriety, the prose of Shuang Xuetao, one of the most celebrated young authors in contemporary China, interweaves times in which violence and disenchantment are the common factor: a past of social turmoil and rampant industrialization, a present of abandonment and the intermediate days in which utopia was transformed into fierce competition. This volume is the presentation in Spanish of one of the most exciting writings of the Asian continent, a work whose assimilation of the best Western literature shows us that, in the midst of the crudest realism, an overwhelming hope for a future without adjectives can emerge. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Serie de circunstancias posibles en torno a una mujer mexicana de clase trabajadora
Read moreTitle Serie de circunstancias posibles en torno a una mujer mexicana de clase trabajadora Author Segura, Yolanda Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851331 Edition number 2 Publication year 2023 Pages 80 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In the space that poetry opens between the flow of everyday words, a series of possible circumstances surrounding a working-class Mexican woman, she analyzes one of the core concepts of the capitalist economy. What is the “middle class”? Who is part of it? Is there a way to describe it, to count it? Are its members defined by the calculation of their income, what they own or dream of? By their future projects? While reflecting on these questions, Yolanda Segura tells the story of Eloísa, a woman born in the 1940s who has worked since she was very young. With a stable job and a secure salary, she soon faces the possibility of getting married and having a family. She wants to guarantee herself a prosperous and happy existence. Will it be enough to have a husband, to work her day, to obtain a mortgage loan? Why does the economic growth of a person or a country always happen in the future and never in the present? Do financial benefits increase social well-being? In the midst of inflation and wage cuts, of crisis and debt, how will she manage her time, desires and affections? Are there other ways to invent a livable life for a working woman? For Yolanda Segura, a poem is a form of resistance, a way of cancelling the economic value of language. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Silencio
Read moreTitle Silencio Author Mendoza, Clyo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851393 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 184 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis After a day in the fields, all that remains is silence. It seems that nothing is happening anymore, but in the privacy of homes, in the bends of roads and on the banks of rivers, things continue to happen. Águeda wants to know where her mother’s body is, while she tries to maintain mourning in a town where organized crime keeps death in perpetual stalking. Her pain is an affront and the furious audacity with which she demands a grave deserves to be punished. As in a second birth, the young woman must transform herself in order to continue living. This new gestation gives her the possibility of perceiving the world, of listening to the stories that birds tell; of loving and experiencing the beauty that happens despite the horror. Recognized with the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz International Poetry Prize 2017, Silence tells the story of one of the forty thousand disappearances recorded in Mexico; it tells the story of an unrecognized body among the thousands that have been left without a name. Clyo Mendoza chooses poetry to reveal what happens in the shadows and to build a tribute to the disappeared through the effort to see life in death. This writing is not only a way of embodying the unspeakable, but of offering a burial that was denied. It is the word as a mortuary rite. A flame that lights up the darkness. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Planetas habitables
Read moreTitle Planetas habitables Author Diaz Castelo, Elisa Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851409 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 128 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Each reader is a world, and if we pay enough attention, so is every entity that surrounds him: the chair that supports him, the lamp that lights up his reading, the book he holds in his hands, the tiny nematode that flies over his head. Between each of these worlds, an incessant exchange takes place, an affective and material economy that transforms them. There are even encounters between them of such violence that we can think of them as collisions, great impacts that generate new worlds, with unprecedented links and flashes. In Habitable Planets, Elisa Díaz Castelo traces, thanks to a writing in which the words of science take on an unexpected sensuality and the subtleties of life spread the pleasure of irony, a meticulous map that seeks to account for the intricate network of connections deployed around us at every moment. If today there are those who think that, in the face of the announced disaster, the solution is the search for new worlds, in this collection of poems we are invited to find in language the reasons to keep habitable the singular complexity that shapes us and of which we are a part. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Carcoma
Read moreTitle Carcoma Author Martínez, Layla Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851430 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 128 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In a village in the Spanish countryside, a house is shaking. The windows are slamming, the roofs are narrowing, the walls are slamming down on whoever crosses the threshold of the door. Inside, voices, scratches, cries, and furniture are heard. The house is crying out for things, it is hungry. Its inhabitants – a grandmother and her granddaughter – have learned to live with the shadows in the corners, with the beings hiding under the beds and the dead who arrive tired from crossing the mountain. Built with the money that the great-grandfather earned by prostituting women, the house is the heritage of a family that, along with the walls, has inherited resentment and rage. After the war that devastated the territory but kept the dynamics of power and social classes intact, this home protects while it suffocates. More than a refuge, the house is a condemnation, a curse from which one cannot escape. A place where resentment never stops drilling into the body and the perfect setting for them to cook up their revenge. With exceptional literary skill, Layla Martínez has told a story that is already a literary event in Spain and several other countries. Venturing into terror, Carcoma touches our deepest sensibilities to awaken fear and the bittersweet memory of family ties. While placing gender and class violence in its proper dimension as authentic horror stories, it reminds us that love, hate and trauma are also inherited through blood. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Genética de los monos
Read moreTitle Genética de los monos Author Ramírez, María José Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851492 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 248 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis At her father's insistence that she write the family history, María José Rangel finds herself faced with a riddle. If telling a story is narrating with words what exists between a beginning and an end, through writing she will try to give meaning to the puzzle of births, accidents, deaths, unions and separations that weave the family epic. Amidst a collection of memories and nostalgia, she will also find the story of her own body and identity. Nicknamed by her sisters as Monkey Brain in allusion to the father's foolish gesture of injecting himself with monkey hormones in order to conceive her, Majo will not only chronicle those who share her genes, but also the other loves that have gradually joined her pack. Winner of the Aura Estrada International Prize in 2011, María José Ramírez has written a novel that is an altar of memory. By portraying with honesty and humor the bonds of human affections, revealing their sweet and cruel complexity, the author has built a home for ghosts, trees, wild beasts and the pristine waters of the sea. A beautiful mausoleum to pay homage to the dead and which is, therefore, a luminous celebration of life. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
No fue penal
Read moreTitle No fue penal Author Villoro, Juan Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851508 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 104 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis It Wasn't a Penalty offers two versions of the same play. In dramatic fashion, this move brings together two friends whom fate has turned into enemies. El Tanque is the manager of a team that will be relegated to the second division if they lose the match. From his small prison as a technical director, he faces something more than the score: his future and his past are at stake. With his throat torn to pieces, he fights against the clumsiness of his own players and the decisions of the referee. Meanwhile, he is observed by Valeriano Fuentes, the former friend with whom he shared a tragedy that changed their lives and who is now in charge of the implacable justice of the VAR. For years, Juan Villoro, winner of the Manuel Vázquez Montalbán International Award for Dios es redondo, has written chronicles and essays on football. This time he uses two complementary narratives to tell a story about sporting passion, brotherhood and rivalries, and to explore the theatrical condition of those who intervene in the game from off the field. Controversial plays depend on who watches them. It Wasn't a Penalty brings to light a disconcerting condition of sport: what is legitimate for some is an insult for others. The match is stopped and the action is reviewed by the VAR. What will be the verdict? Two very different stories explain this disturbing moment of decision. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Transporte a la infancia
Read moreTitle Transporte a la infancia Author Cartas, Frida Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851447 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 152 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Here, memory is not cloudy. There are traces that have been left clean after the insatiable trampling of violence. Wherever this story takes place, the heat of the climate is tempered and what boils is the horror of prejudice. Father, mother, son, daughter, boy, girl, good, bad, yes, no: inside these pages the world struggles between dualisms and those who do not fit in there are denied, mistreated, excluded. Through everyday anecdotes we learn about the events that determined the identity of the author and various aspects of reality rarely explored in literature. Frida Cartas recalls a childhood that left no space for her name, nor for her voice, nor for her body. In some stories, an unusual tenderness prevails; in many, the crudeness of incessant abuse; In others, an inexplicable humor or a coldness that dissects events to tell us something: that the most atrocious violence can inhabit our bodies, but also the most lively and resilient courage towards life. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Caballo fantasma
Read moreTitle Caballo fantasma Author Sosa Castañeda, Karina Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851348 Edition number 2 Publication year 2023 Pages 120 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In a room in the city of Oaxaca, a young architect writes and reads the diaries she has accumulated over ten years. Her mother died six hundred days ago. The only thing Ka knows about her is that she suffered from a nervous illness and loved horses. Leonora, her mother, has always been a ghost. While she adjusts to her return to the city, her new job, the streets, love and libraries, Ka searches for her own story and investigates her mother's life and her passionate equine hobby. Leonora is a blank space, a mystery that Ka will try to solve with a writing that oscillates between memories, quotes and literary references. Throughout a patient and crystalline prose, this novel reflects on absence, lies, loneliness, family stories and the capacity of human beings to tell themselves the stories that give them identity and define their place in the world. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
La mirada de las plantas
Read moreTitle La mirada de las plantas Author Paz Soldán, Edmundo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764952 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 264 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In this novel, the extractive past and present of the Amazon are intertwined within the framework of a disturbing and lysergic environment. Fleeing from scandal, the protagonist of this story takes refuge in a laboratory where an enigmatic investigation is being carried out. With the intention of creating the most advanced virtual reality video game, a team led by the charismatic Dr. Dunn seeks to reproduce the hallucinogenic effects of an ancient plant known as “sky wing.” A duel of shadows soon begins in which it is difficult to discern who has more to hide. Perhaps only the mythical wing can guide the way out of this labyrinth of illusions. In The Gaze of Plants, Edmundo Paz Soldán manages to amalgamate a wide series of literary motifs to formulate urgent questions about our time, in which the seductive power of screens seems to trap us with their promises of satisfaction and plenitude. Dystopia and fantasy literature are enveloped by the dense foliage of the jungle – that fragile titan in danger of disappearing – to take to the extreme the minds of beings that wander through this world with their wounds open, raw. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Ää: manifiestos sobre la diversidad lingüística
Read moreTitle Ää: manifiestos sobre la diversidad lingüística Author Aguilar Gil, Yásnaya Elena Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764792 Edition number 2 Publication year 2022 Pages 208 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Reading the articles by Yásnaya Aguilar compiled in this volume, as well as the many comments on social media that accompany and enrich them, is a pleasure that I wholeheartedly recommend to readers. Throughout these texts, as entertaining as they are refreshing, it is clear that Yásnaya Aguilar has been able to see beyond impositions and violence, driven by her deep passion for languages, for linguistics, for literature, to go beyond the confines of her native Ayuujk and her learned Spanish, to approach the most widely spoken languages in the world, such as Russian, but also the countless indigenous languages that throughout the planet are marginalized, threatened and, sometimes, on the verge of extinction. In his unpretentious use of the plain Mexican dialect of Castilian, the constant generosity of his style, his humor and sincerity stand out, which allows him to construct a defense as passionate as it is reasonable, as rigorous as it is entertaining, of the value of indigenous languages, of cultural plurality, of the vitality of the traditions of our native peoples. This clarity also gives greater force to his denunciations against linguistic discrimination, against the contempt for indigenous languages and against the arrogance of the defenders of Spanish as the national language. Written over the course of a decade, this book is destined to be an exponent of an authentic blossoming and renaissance of contemporary thought in indigenous languages. (Federico Navarrete) foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Drenajes
Read moreTitle Drenajes Author Rodríguez Landeros, Diego Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851003 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 168 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The essays in Drenajes form an intricate network through which various narrative flows tell, from multiple perspectives and treatments, the story of water in the basin of the Valley of Mexico. The unexpected link between the drainage channel that runs through the municipality of Ecatepec and a global publishing consortium, the actions of resistance that several towns in the Valley of Mexico sustained against attempts to accumulate water from ancient Tenochtitlán, the hunt for a mythical creature in contemporary Texcoco, the neoliberal disaster that has brought dispossession and contamination to our water bodies; the stories and characters that cross the restless currents of this book are palpable examples of the ways in which writing can be decanted into a political stance and of how fiction manages to provide clarity to the dark events of a murky history. With an extraordinary ability to build relationships, Rodríguez Landeros manages in each of these texts to surprise the reader with the discovery that, in effect, there is a secret thread capable of linking everything: an underground pipeline that unites the intimate waters of our homes with a lake past and the grandiloquent future of a chimerical national project. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
No soy tan zen
Read moreTitle No soy tan zen Author Montelongo, José Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764914 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 224 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis I'm Not So Zen is an existential comedy whose protagonist is caught up in a struggle between words and things. A strident internal battle takes place in the mind of Julián González, a cultural journalist, as he tries to pay attention to a string quartet that seems endless. The protagonist wants silence but life is stubborn and noisy and intrudes, and there are tacos and seafood and corn gorditas with green sauce and a lot of work and a lot of hurry. In a world like the one we live in—inside and outside the novel—it is not fair to remain silent, although, sometimes, accessing silence is just what we need. To accompany us on this journey of self-knowledge, a motley catalogue of characters circulates through the narrative: a tenor with a remote serenade service, a woman who gets lost for years inside a library, a Dionysian and erudite veteran of cultural journalism, a husky dog with a contemplative temperament. With this entertaining novel, José Montelongo offers us a concise satire of the cultural environment and the fauna that inhabits it, while inviting us to pay attention to the music of everything that surrounds us. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Conferencia sobre la lluvia
Read moreTitle Conferencia sobre la lluvia Author Villoro, Juan Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764822 Edition number 2 Publication year 2022 Pages 64 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Lecture on the Rain deals with a theatrical situation par excellence: public speaking. A lecturer loses his notes and his nervousness leads him to say unexpected things. The topic of the talk is the relationship between rain and love poetry. In the vortex of improvisation, the protagonist talks about himself but does not abandon his original purpose; the poets who have changed the climate with their verses come to mind. Two forms of discourse are fascinatingly mixed: the lecture and the confession. Starring a librarian, this monologue written by Juan Villoro is a deep and often ironic reflection on the life of books and the emotions they arouse. A library is a collection of loves, rejections, suspicions and nostalgia, because of what its copies say, but also because of the way they have been read. Lecture on the Rain has a final surprise in store: the recipient of the talk. If a book depends on the reader, a lecture depends on the audience. The voice makes sense if someone hears it and, mysteriously, it also defines who hears it. To listen is to be interpreted. A lecturer speaks on stage. He has lost his papers and his words rush. Meanwhile, a stealthy presence listens to him with the bewilderment caused by the falling rain. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
El vértigo horizontal
Read moreTitle El vértigo horizontal Author Villoro, Juan Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764761 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 456 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Convinced that Mexico City may not be the most advisable region to live in, but also that it is so intricate and exciting that it is impossible to leave it, Juan Villoro proposes this book written from the devotion of the recalcitrant and amazed urbanite that unfolds like an infinite puzzle: the shortcuts, the wrestling movies, the national heroes, the Tepiteño commerce, the government paperwork, the enigma of the tire repair shops, the countless crowds, the consumption of chili, the ancestral temples. The author also narrates certain autobiographical passages, such as the last walk with his grandmother or the memory of the neighborhood of abandoned houses where he grew up. With an attentive gaze and a firm pulse, Villoro unfolds as a journalist, passerby, pen buyer, nostalgic adult, responsible father, emergency brigade member, and offers us a testimony of the multiple adventures that the city has in store for each and every one of its members. Whether from his own experience or through listening to and investigating other people's realities, Juan Villoro composes a great fresco of the endearing and eternal chaos that makes up the country's capital. The space in which nothing fits anymore, but nothing is ever left over: Chilangópolis. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Mejor que ficción
Read moreTitle Mejor que ficción Author Carrion, Jorge Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851027 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 528 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis On the tenth anniversary of its original edition, Better than fiction: Exemplary chronicles returns to bookstores with a new prologue and new texts. It thus reinforces its status as a reference anthology of narrative journalism in our language, while it can be read as a trip around the world and as a catalogue of strategies and styles to tell the difficult reality of this turn of the century. The book contains chronicles by Juan Villoro, Leila Guerriero, Sabrina Duque, Jordi Costa, Alberto Fuguet, Alberto Salcedo Ramos, Eileen Truax, Juan Pablo Meneses, Juanita León, Cristian Alarcón, Marcela Turati, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Maye Primera, María Moreno, Julio Villanueva Chang, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Fabrizio Mejía Madrid, Cristina Rivera Garza, Jaime Bedoya, Rodrigo Fresán, Mónica Baró, Guillem Martínez, Gabriela Wiener, Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá and Martín Caparrós. It also includes an extensive dictionary of Ibero-American chroniclers, with hundreds of invitations to continue reading. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Punto de cruz
Read moreTitle Punto de cruz Author Barrera, Jazmina Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851089 Edition number 2 Publication year 2022 Pages 208 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The unexpected death of a friend triggers this novel-tapestry, where various times, stories, conversations and trips are interwoven. This is a story of growth, of the imbalances of identity and the adolescent body. Punto de cruz narrates the becoming of adults in a society crossed by sexist, classist, racist and environmental violence. For the protagonists of this book, friendship becomes the main tool of care, meaning, reparation and resistance. Friendship and embroidery, that activity in which women from hundreds of cultures and times found oppression, repression, freedom, community and art at the same time. This novel is also a travel chronicle or a chronicle about the effect of travel on one's own and collective identity; it is a beautiful portrait of the relationships between women, how we choose them, what affections continue to accompany us and what others choose paths that separate us forever. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Mundos alternos
Read moreTitle Mundos alternos Author Esquinca, Bernardo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851065 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 232 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Who hasn't wondered about the existence of other worlds and imagined how to discover them? Written in the first half of the twentieth century, the stories of Judith Merril, Zenna Henderson, Joanna Russ, Doris Pitkin Buck, Wilmar H. Shiras, C. L. Moore and Mildred Clingerman show possible ways to reach them. Whether through journeys that challenge the courage of their protagonists, the convergence of dimensions in everyday life at home, genetic mutations or hidden villages, these writers suggest that there are different universes that touch each other, that multiply the present but also the possibilities of the future. Alternate Worlds is the first volume of The Future is Woman!, an anthology edited by academic Lisa Yaszek that brings together stories by twenty-five American writers who found in science fiction a space of freedom to play with surprise and wonder, but also to experiment, dissent and confront social and political issues of their present. Over the course of four decades, these authors not only helped to build a literary genre from its foundations, but they also transformed it by developing complex characters, rethinking the relationship between men and women, humans and aliens, and asking how science and technology could reconfigure gender, sex, motherhood and survival, enabling new ways of living. Divided into three thematic volumes that bring together Yaszek's anthology, Almadía presents this collection for the first time in Spanish thanks to the translation by the Falsos Amigos collective. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Toda la sangre
Read moreTitle Toda la sangre Author Esquinca, Bernardo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764990 Edition number 3 Publication year 2022 Pages 264 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The pre-Hispanic remains of Mexico City, once the scene of extreme rites of a faith that we still have trouble understanding, are turned into crime scenes by a fanatic who seeks to restore the greatness of the great Tenochtitlan. The enormous metropolis suddenly pulsates to the rhythm of an ancient song that awakens a past of oppression and resistance, of integration and disagreement; the bloody trace of the clash of two worlds. After spending days living as a homeless person to write an investigative piece, Casasola, a reporter for Semanario Sensacional, is driven to follow the trail of The Ritual Killer. Elisa Matos, an archaeologist, hostage to an impulsive and chaotic love life, becomes an indispensable ally during his investigations, but also the object of his desire. Banished gods who refuse to die, characters determined to understand an enigmatic and distant past, authorities who suspect everyone. This novel has already become a classic of Mexican crime fiction in which crime, horror and fantasy literature come together in a thriller full of emotion and suspense. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Pajarito
Read moreTitle Pajarito Author Ulloa Donoso, Claudia Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851157 Edition number 2 Publication year 2022 Pages 160 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Pajarito works like a collector's cabinet, a display of small artifacts treasured for the uniqueness of their details, gathered according to a very personal taxonomy. Coat racks that are immense men, words that fall like shavings in a sawmill, trees that with their strength provoke the fury of the wind, a sea contained in a plastic bottle, sheets stained with secrets; with these elements, stories are told starring men and women whose character does not fit with the cold schedules of productivity and the routes they find to escape from it. They are vivid snapshots of loneliness and foreignness through which both the latent fatality in our lives and the capacity of language to endow it with other meanings appear. The stories in this collection find their greatest power in the irruption of a poetic imaginary in the details of the most routine everyday life. In their brevity and precision, they propose continuous escapes towards the territories of the lyrical and unexpected. There is in this book an insistent invitation to look around us with different eyes, to seek and put into practice the subtle – and often cruel – sensitivity of Claudia Ulloa Donoso. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Necropolitana
Read moreTitle Necropolitana Author Esquinca, Bernardo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851096 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 208 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis A shadow walks through the streets of Mexico City's historic center. Through rites of dark magic, this presence invokes the energies that have been absorbed by the city's old facades throughout its history. Patient and furtive, this Necromancer plots revenge against the one who has condemned his name to oblivion. Thus, his plan seeks to put an end to a duel that dates back to the last days of the conquest and on whose outcome depends the permanence of the Mexican capital and all who inhabit it. After a long season lost in the past, Casasola manages to find a way to return to our present. In turn, thanks to powerful amulets and messages carved in the bronze of the statues, he is made aware of the destiny of chaos and destruction that has always loomed over what was the Great Tenochtitlan. With the help of a restoration architect whose legacy is limited to his father's old library, and allies lost in time, the hardened journalist will have to face forces he never suspected he would face. In the fifth installment of the acclaimed Casasola Saga, Bernardo Esquinca's personal obsession with Mexico City returns with greater intensity than ever, now in the form of multiple scenarios for its complete annihilation. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Yo maté a un perro en Rumanía
Read moreTitle Yo maté a un perro en Rumanía Author Ulloa Donoso, Claudia Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851102 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 368 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The protagonist of this story, a Latin American woman who teaches Norwegian to immigrants, is about to reach her limit; loneliness has brought her to the brink of complete abandonment of herself. Wanting to avoid the worst, her best friend decides to take her with him to his native Romania on a trip that she finds impossible to postpone. There, among concrete blocks and neon signs, they see the tenuous bond that united them as migrants in frozen Norway fade away. Refuge in alcohol and drugs, surrounded by a language she doesn't know in a country she doesn't understand, the young language teacher will look for a way to hold on to this world. In the midst of so much darkness, she finds a brittle bark. Claudia Ulloa Donoso's first novel is a bold exploration of death as an idea and intuition, but also an incredulous contemplation of its reverse: life and its stubborn insistence. Faithful to the literary quest he undertook in Pajarito, his acclaimed collection of stories, Ulloa Donoso has written a book that, between pleasure and fever, takes language to its limits to remind us that only through it are we able to confront that definitive threshold that is the end of existence. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Monkey boy
Read moreTitle Monkey boy Author Goldman, Francisco Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851140 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 384 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Like a late winter blizzard, memories rush into the mind of Francisco (Frankie) Goldberg, the protagonist of this story, as he travels by train from New York to Boston, his hometown. Forced to return to North America as a result of fierce political persecution, the marked distance he has built up with his family suddenly vanishes. Now he goes to meet his mother, his sister, an interrupted school love, and also the scars that growing up in the American northeast leaves on a child of a Russian Jewish father and a Guatemalan Catholic mother. Moving, funny, and disturbing in equal measure, Monkey Boy unfolds a network of temporalities that makes evident the impossibility of an immutable past, while highlighting the omissions with which we construct the stories we tell about ourselves. In this novel, Francisco Goldman has written a brilliant reflection and a clear x-ray of the individual and collective identity of a country that, like many, is inhabited by people of multiple geographic and cultural origins. But above all, this book is a celebration of female strength, without which overcoming the most turbulent childhoods would be practically impossible. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
X, Y y Z
Read moreTitle X, Y y Z Author Magallanes, Alejandro Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764938 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 184 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In X, Y and Z, some events take place between the texts, letters, images and drawings of Alejandro Magallanes. A container of unrepeatable poetic discoveries, equations, invisible images, deceptive rhymes, enigmatic drawings, texts and found objects, this book deals with memory – fragile and slippery –, the humor of truth, chance and the beauty that envelops everything. It is also a tribute to artists of the image and the word such as Gloria Fuertes, Nicanor Parra, Octavio Paz, Amado Nervo, Lydia Davis, Aleksandr Ródchenko, Yoko Ono, Isaac Newton, Francis Alÿs and Rufino Padilla. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx
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