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
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