Category: ALMADIA
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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
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