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Bacuzagui
Read moreTitle Bacuzagui Author Cházaro, Danae Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764044 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 56 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Bacuza – ‘spark’ in Zapotec – is the brief and unexpected poetry that is born from a child’s wonder at the world. It is the poetry of the hearth and the lap, which spontaneously jumps into our language when we seek simple answers to the complex questions of childhood. This collection of bacuzas, translated into ten languages from the south of Mexico, invites us to open our senses from the perspective of insects and the sounds of their regions, to return us to a state of surprise before this diverse cultural habitat. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Mi pelo chino
Read moreTitle Mi pelo chino Author Ogata Aguilar, Jumko Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851010 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 56 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis My Chinese Hair is a reunion with curly hair, a catalogue of its possibilities and a celebration of its beauty. It is a fun and educational title with which, based on an everyday anecdote, we seek to celebrate the Afro heritage in our country. In this book we defend the idea that beauty does not have to be seen in a single way, but that we can find it in diversity and it can take all possible forms. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Tres animales que caben en el agua
Read moreTitle Tres animales que caben en el agua Author Zapata, Isabel Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764037 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 48 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Water can be as vast as the ocean or as tiny as a splashing drop; creatures so small they are invisible to the human eye swim in it, or as big as a building. What are water bears like? How do octopuses feel and think? How big is a whale's heart? This is a book about water and three animals that fit in it. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Olga
Read moreTitle Olga Author Toledo, Natalia Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764068 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 16 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Jñaa/Madre foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Relatos lumbung
Read moreTitle Relatos lumbung Author C. Brown, Harriet; Aiyub, Azhari; Alberdi, Uxue; Judar, Cristina; Khoury, Nesrine; Aguilar Gil, Yásnaya Elena; Panashe, chigumadzi; Sanyal, Mithu Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851072 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 192 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis “Minga” in many South American countries, “tequio” in Mexico, auzolan in Euskal Herria, andecha in Asturias, mutirão in Brazil, Ubuntu in various African countries, gadugi in Cherokee communities, talkoot in Finland, guanxi in China, fa’zaa in Arabic or lumbung in the Philippines; as diverse as human societies are the ways of naming collective work, that which is done with an eye to the common good and not to individual accumulation or competition. Within the framework of documenta 15, a five-year exhibition of international contemporary art, eight publishing houses from around the world have cooperated to offer this volume that brings together voices from different latitudes that, through writing, explore the experiences of being-in-common in their respective contexts. These pages narrate the individual sacrifice that militancy demands; the nostalgia for a way of life interrupted by war; the whirlwind of temporalities that the collective memory of slavery can produce when invoked by textuality; but, above all, the festive spirit that the gathering of bodies, rhythms and energies with a view to a common benefit produces. This is a collective book, as is any vital experience worth living. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Leer mata
Read moreTitle Leer mata Author Miguel, Luna Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851171 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 168 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis At first glance, reading is a simple action: all you have to do is turn the pages while your gaze deciphers the signs written on them. But reading is also a fantastic act: it allows you to discover other thoughts and experiences, to imagine other worlds. There is something about reading that feeds the passionate obsession of the reader; unraveling the words of books transforms life. In this brief essay that plays with narration and poetry, Luna Miguel tells us how the Reader reads during the summer. Ferociously advancing through books that she finishes in days, or taking weeks to read others, she discovers that there is a relationship between the desire to read and her coquetry. It is no longer about finding out why one reads and what it is for, but about heroically abandoning oneself to the act of reading itself and giving oneself over to excess as if it were an adventure. Wearing a pink bikini or topless under the sun, the Reader seems to give up the idea that one reads in the ascetic solitude of the mind. One reads with others, with lovers and friends; Reading requires, above all, the awakening of all the senses and their pleasures. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
El dorso del cangrejo
Read moreTitle El dorso del cangrejo Author Toledo, Natalia Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764846 Edition number 2 Publication year 2022 Pages 128 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis <> (Mariela Castañeda, Periódico de Poesía) / <> (Jesús Santiago, Milenio) / <> (Elena Poniatowska) foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Mudanza
Read moreTitle Mudanza Author Gerber Bicecci, Verónica Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764815 Edition number 2 Publication year 2022 Pages 136 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis s/contra foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Cascarón roto
Read moreTitle Cascarón roto Author López Mills, Tedi Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764099 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 152 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis El nuevo libro de Tedi López Mills se compone de tres ensayos en los que la formación de filósofa de la autora, así como su gran calidad literaria y perspicaz pensamiento, salen a relucir de forma grácil y deslumbrante. En el primero, “Aviones”, la autora trabaja sobre la experiencia de la despedida, la incertidumbre a la que da lugar el alejarse de los seres a los que nos unen vínculos afectivos. Como eje narrativo de este ensayo está la historia de Ted Mills, tío de la autora que falleció trágicamente al estrellarse el avión de combate que piloteaba. Por otro lado, “Cascarón roto” es una reflexión sobre los planteamientos que numerosos pensadores clásicos (Platón, Aristóteles, Diógenes Laercio, Cicerón) hicieron sobre la amistad, mismos que son contrapunteados por ejemplos cotidianos de la vida contemporánea: conversaciones, malentendidos, sobre interpretaciones de lo dicho, es decir, los deslices y tropiezos que toda amistad atraviesa. En “Impertinencia”, la identidad nacional es encarnada por disputas lingüísticas que se inspiran en formulaciones de pensadores como Guillermo Sheridan, José Vasconcelos y, sobre todo, Carlos Monsiváis, así como con recuerdos de las discusiones y comentarios comunes en los pasillos de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM: lo nacional entendido como una formación del habla pero, también, como la propia historia y memoria. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Los filósofos ante los animales. Una historia filosófica sobre los animales. Pensamiento contemporáneo
Read moreTitle Los filósofos ante los animales. Una historia filosófica sobre los animales. Pensamiento contemporáneo Author Flores Farfán, Leticia; Linares Salgado, Jorge E. Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764051 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 240 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The 20th century saw, as never before in history, the intensive devastation of ecosystems coupled with the advance of technology and industry, as well as a significant development of the means of communication and transport. It was faced with war conflicts and the conquest of space. It was in this century that various voices also began to seriously question human activity on the planet and its place in nature. The so-called “school of suspicion” – Nietzsche, Marx and Freud – bequeathed to the contemporary world a series of doubts and questions that forced us to rethink both anthropology and human praxis. Wars, resistance to colonialist and imperialist projects, terrorism and financial crises were recurring scenarios in a century that, while taking humanity to unsuspected levels of development, also showed human cruelty and constant coexistence with evil. The philosophers of the 20th century sought to find new answers, new points of support in the face of the collapse of tradition. For this reason, perhaps in response to the difficulties experienced, the past century was a century of great philosophical contributions and in these the animal question did not go unnoticed. The third volume of this collection offers a tour of some of these proposals, specifically those of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Georges Bataille, Jacques Derrida, Tom Regan, Giorgio Agamben, Peter Singer and Martha Nussbaum. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Conjunto Vacío
Read moreTitle Conjunto Vacío Author Gerber Bicecci, Verónica Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764112 Edition number 2 Publication year 2021 Pages 240 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Conjunto vacío tells the story of Verónica, the daughter of Argentine exiles, who lives in Mexico City and must return to the apartment that belonged to her mother before she suddenly disappeared years ago. It is also a story of love, or abandonment, in which a breakup leads to a journey to family roots. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Linea nigra
Read moreTitle Linea nigra Author Barrera, Jazmina Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764129 Edition number 2 Publication year 2021 Pages 168 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis With the intelligent curiosity and the transparent and warm language that has been shown in Cuerpo extraño and Cuaderno de faros, Jazmina Barrera once again explores her body through writing, but this time through the first moments of her motherhood. Almost attending an intimate and familiar conversation, which accompanies the author's thoughts in the chronicle of the transformations of her body, her sensations, fears and reactions, while going through the work of women who through photographs, texts or paintings found in art their own language to relate and understand - as mothers, daughters or companions - their experiences of gestation, childbirth and breastfeeding. Visiting the stories of the women in her family or artists such as Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo, Rosario Castellanos, Marlene Dumas, Mary Shelley, Ursula K. Le Guin, Virginia Woolf, Luz Jiménez, Simone de Beauvoir, Alice Munro or Margaret Atwood, Barrera's lucid and honest gaze does not give in to easy sentimentality; The writer explores the darkness of pregnancy and tells the story of pain, anguish and happiness in a pristine language that is amazed by the mystery, so common but so magical, of giving birth. Linea nigra is the story of a woman whose body is transformed into a writing that she will gradually decipher, while her writing is also transformed by her pregnant body. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
El asedio animal
Read moreTitle El asedio animal Author Londoño, Vanessa Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764471 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 112 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In Hukuméiji, a town located in the north of Colombia, near the Don Diego River and the Caribbean Sea, the characters in the four stories that make up this novel are stripped of parts of their body—their tongue, hands, legs, eyes—they suffer the death of their loved ones, and they have even been stripped of their land or crops; that is, they suffer the mutilation of the different parts that make them up. Thus, the body becomes a system to explain loss, so that the author weaves a writing that embodies the pain and ravages of violence exercised by power anywhere in the world. Likewise, nature—present in the stories through the jungle, plants, crops, or torrential rains—links human bodies with the territory: violence is executed on bodies and land in an analogous way. If, as journalist Ana Teresa Toro says, in Latin America “the body makes culture, the body thinks, articulates and gestures ideas, manifests history in a forceful way, it is not a mere consumer or a product, it is an idea and a concept”, El asedio animal participates in the current conversation that links, for example, the struggles of women and indigenous peoples with the care of the land and the protection of natural resources, as part of the same process that considers bodies – individual, collective, natural – as territories of resistance against an economic system that seeks to manage life, death, flesh and its desires. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Mucha madre
Read moreTitle Mucha madre Author Fuentes Silva, Andrea Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764594 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 304 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Mucha madre is a collective book coordinated and edited by Andrea Fuentes. In it, eleven writers –Gabriela Jauregui, Luisa Fuentes Guaza, Clarisa Moura, Andrea Fuentes, Abril Castro, Violeta Celis, Pilar Villela, Sara Schulz, Ave Barrera, Jazmina Barrera and Gina Jaramillo– and eight illustrators –Amanda Mijangos, Sol Undurraga, Liz Meville, Rachel Levit, Gala Navarro, Sonia Pulido, María Luque and Carmen Segovia– share their ideas, experiences and practices of motherhood to reinvent it. With a language made of words and images, this book is a kaleidoscope that brings together the thoughts and feelings of women with different stories, whose reflections relate their experiences of mothering at different ages and sexual preferences or thanks to fertility treatments; they talk about raising children as single mothers or as stepmothers, they discuss the division of child care within couples, weaning, breastfeeding, and even the refusal to write about being a mother or the decision not to be one. Mucha Madre is a book that relies on diversity; each text shows that there is not just one motherhood, but many motherhoods that, in their multiplicity, call for a collective and urgent conversation in which we all – mothers or not – are part of. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
El día que apagaron la luz
Read moreTitle El día que apagaron la luz Author Fabbri, Camila Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764518 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 144 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis On December 29, 2004, during a concert by the rock band Callejeros at the República de Cromañón establishment, located in the Once neighborhood of Buenos Aires, a flare started a fire that caused the death of almost two hundred young people and injured many more. The night before, Camila Fabbri had been to one of the three concerts that the band was giving that week. In this book, the author reconstructs her own adolescence in the days before and after the tragedy, in addition to gathering the testimony of some survivors, family members and friends of the victims, as well as people who had no direct relationship with the event. Fabbri's writing thus becomes a tool to put an era into context; to build a collage and a chorus of voices that tells of what it was like to be a teenager at that time and to try to understand how it was possible to survive such a difficult episode. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
In vitro
Read moreTitle In vitro Author Zapata, Isabel Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764631 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 216 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In Vitro is an essay that brings together a collection of short texts in which Isabel Zapata writes about part of her experience with pregnancy and motherhood; through her medical treatments, memories and quotes from other literary works, as well as the experiences of other women, the author describes the difficult but exciting process of becoming a mother through in vitro fertilization. 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 9786078764723 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 320 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis I will never forget the sound of the drums of the shell collectors at night, while I tried to fall asleep in an old building on Donceles Street. It seemed like a sinister warning: beneath there is a city that beats and breathes, with gods who have not died; let us pay tribute to them, because one day that world will return... It is impossible to sleep next to the Templo Mayor without being influenced by those ancient stones, by the voices that whisper from the ruins during the early hours of the morning. My mind began to imagine a story to ward off the insomnia that this invocation to the ancient and mysterious side of the city caused me. I wanted to understand where we come from, and why it is difficult to reconcile ourselves with our pre-Hispanic origins; especially with the human sacrifices practiced by the Aztecs. This novel unites past and present in the same secret plot: the obsidian knives that ripped out hearts, the homeless people who swarm the streets of the Center, the colonial buildings with tezontle facades, the abandoned concrete buildings on the edge of large avenues, the sensationalist publications and their language of violence, the archaeological windows that tell of a lost splendor; a riddle whose main character is Mexico City, the place where any situation is possible. Archaeologists turned detectives, vagabonds dressed in human skins, secret tunnels and catacombs under the asphalt of the city, and a ritual murderer with an apocalyptic mission. All the Blood is a thriller about the universe of myths and the realm of the “real”; both are needed because they feed off each other. In the middle are we, puppets of forces that we sense and prefer to ignore. Until the sound of the drums reaches our door. (Bernardo Esquinca) foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Ansibles, perfiladores y otras máquinas de ingenio
Read moreTitle Ansibles, perfiladores y otras máquinas de ingenio Author Chapela, Andrea Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764716 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 216 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis What will social media and the devices we use to communicate and organize our lives be like in the future? In this collection of stories, Andrea Chapela masterfully narrates a future where a collection of devices such as sensory screens, pings, ansibles, contact lenses and profilers – many of them installed inside the human body – allow people to connect to a cloud, control their perceptions of reality, know other people's thoughts, share and "live" the experiences of others, as well as calculate the success of a romantic relationship or make calls that reproduce the physical presence of the interlocutors. Technology seems inseparable from human experience, from decision-making and everyday tasks; however, the protagonists of these stories, far from having their lives figured out, face love, breakups, the complexity of their family relationships and the search for their own identity while the limits of reality are increasingly less clear. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Nefando
Read moreTitle Nefando Author Ojeda, Mónica Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764709 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 200 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Nefando revolves around a video game from the Deep Web; a digital enigma that has caused a scandal for containing images that dislocate all morals. As an investigation, the novel is built with testimonies from those involved in the creation of the game: a Spanish programmer, two Mexican literature students and three Ecuadorian brothers, all living in the same apartment in Barcelona. In this way, different plots unravel to reveal stories whose wounds remain raw: nonconformity with biological gender, an abusive father, an overprotective mother. As a complement to this complex narrative framework, the writing of a pornographic novel by one of the characters finds a place in Nefando: in it, two sadomasochistic teenagers –Diego and Eduardo– find in Nella, a new student at the boarding school where they live, the accomplice and challenge of their desire. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
La octava plaga
Read moreTitle La octava plaga Author Esquinca, Bernardo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764488 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 232 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis When the idea for The Eighth Plague began to float around in my head, one thing was clear: its protagonist would not be a conventional detective. I came from the world of journalism, where I trained as a writer for many years; the vicissitudes of reporters and the atmosphere of newsrooms were familiar to me, so it seemed like an act of congruence for Casasola to have that profession. However, I never worked in crime fiction, something I would have loved; having my journalist in charge of covering the police beat was a settling of scores: that, among other things, is what literature is for. I also knew that I wanted to mix genres: reality has never been enough for me to put together the stories I want to tell. Although it was a rarity in the tradition of detective novels, especially in the one made in Mexico, my novel would fuse a police plot with the supernatural. The Motel Killer, the fantastic entity that Casasola faces, behaves like a praying mantis: she decapitates her lovers during sexual intercourse. Finding out why she – and apparently the rest of humanity – acts like an insect is the subject of a mystery with apocalyptic overtones. But there was something else: Casasola had to look like me and, therefore, he would be an exile. He had to go from the culture section of the newspaper where he worked to the crime section: a universe unknown to both him and me. A path that we would travel and discover together. In the end, we had such a good time that The Eighth Plague became a saga. Mexico City is the ideal setting because, as we already know, in its streets and nooks and crannies the strange and chilling are part of the landscape. Do you dare to join us? foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Furia
Read moreTitle Furia Author Mendoza, Clyo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764778 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 264 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In a desert dotted with war-ravaged villages, two deserters from opposing sides discover a dark truth about their family. Vicente Barrera, a thread seller who once went from town to town conquering women and planting his children in them, spends his last years tied up in a room turned into an angry dog. María has found in Salvador a love that, so deep, seems to dissolve them into each other and mix their dreams as if concocted by the same mind. It is in that territory that the characters' destinies become intertwined, that their wounds are inherited and bleed out. In that clean landscape where fury and desire find their way, a story is told about children – that of their bodies and affections – but also about the women who surround them: mothers, lovers, companions. After being awarded the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz International Poetry Prize, Clyo Mendoza writes a novel of extraordinary beauty, where language embarks on a hallucinatory journey through eroticism, the transitions of consciousness and the possibility that different beings can inhabit the same body. Through a journey through madness, Furia offers a moving questioning of love, violence and the suffering that it brings with it. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Los filósofos ante los animales
Read moreTitle Los filósofos ante los animales Author Flores Farfán, Leticia; Linares Salgado, Jorge Enrique Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764754 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 256 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In 2020, during the months of the most intense lockdown, social media was filled with videos in which wild animals were seen roaming the deserted streets of various urban centers. These scenes, similar to the enigmatic films of Luis Buñuel, were a fleeting reminder of the lives despised by the whirlwind of economic progress; a year after they were captured, the summer of 2021 was characterized by heat waves and fires that broke all known records. Without a doubt, humanity's responsibility with respect to its environment and the beings with whom it shares it becomes a topic of urgent reflection. In the last volume of this philosophical history of animals, some of the most current and radical proposals on the animal question are problematized by prominent Latin American thinkers, as an effort to detonate and enrich this urgent debate. Within these pages the reader will find reflections on the famous encounter between Friedrich Nietzsche and a horse on the outskirts of Turin; a deep elaboration on the proposal of animal becoming in Gilles Deleuze; the intersections between feminist and animalist proposals of the philosopher Rosi Braidotti; a very interesting reading of the literary work of the writer J. M. Coetzee; among other equally stimulating and necessary texts. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Lodo
Read moreTitle Lodo Author Fadanelli, Guillermo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764600 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 296 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Lodo has as its protagonist one of the best characters to emerge from Guillermo Fadanelli's imagination: Benito Torrentera, the shadow of a man, a thinking corpse, a domesticated philosopher. When this fifty-something professor meets the young and impulsive Flor Eduarda, he is dragged to the limits of desire and madness, and soon becomes convinced that one must live more and imagine life a little less. Thus begins a journey through cities and roads that he never imagined traveling, accompanied by a presence that will lead him to rediscover himself and redefine his own limits. How is it possible that a man of thought could have lost himself in this way? Fadanelli glimpses the reality of a passion that, although it knows it is doomed to disappear, does not allow the characters who embody it to abandon it without first burning to the ground. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Los esclavos
Read moreTitle Los esclavos Author Chimal, Alberto Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667994 Edition number 2 Publication year 2021 Pages 152 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis <> (Carlos Velázquez). <> (Rodolfo J. M.). <> (René López Villamar). <> (Luis Borrás). foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
8.8: el miedo en el espejo
Read moreTitle 8.8: el miedo en el espejo Author Villoro, Juan Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078486779 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 184 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In what is undoubtedly his most exciting chronicle, Juan Villoro tells how he was able to compare the intensity of two of the most terrible earthquakes that Latin America has suffered: the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City and the 2010 earthquake in Santiago de Chile. Convinced that these disasters should be told with the most representative voices involved, Villoro took the stories of his fellow earthquake survivors and built a concert of impressions that is not lacking in suspense or absurdity. “After reading this heartfelt and vibrant book, one might think that the author did not tell the whole truth: 8.8 was written with fear still in the skin, and perhaps in that secret lies its extraordinary power.” -Leonardo Tarifeño foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Ciudad fantasma
Read moreTitle Ciudad fantasma Author Esquinca, Bernardo; Quirarte, Vicente Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667390 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 288 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Like most Mexicans, we grew up listening to ghost stories. Whether it was our grandmothers, aunts or older siblings, their conversations and anecdotes recreated a nearby world, as mysterious as it was intangible. In our formative years, literature deepened this sentimental education, because ghosts teach us that the hardest thing is to learn to let go, to let go of the things we have lost. Mexico cannot be explained without its relationship with the supernatural. If the first thing the Conquistadors heard when they set foot on these lands were tales of terror, without a doubt the last thing that will be heard before the final cataclysm, in the empty and relieved streets, will be the chorus of souls. Ghost Town is a love letter to Mexico City. To all its vicissitudes, enigmas and legends, because a city is made up of its revelations, but also by the secrets it holds. It matters little whether this set of "events" is true or false: if they feed the imagination, then they are more vital than History itself. At the end of the day, when we turn off the light and go to sleep, the facts are not as necessary as our ability to dream. We are convinced, like the authors mentioned in these pages, that ghosts - and all creatures of the night - make this world a more habitable place. Without them, reality would be too simple, too obvious. They are mirror and shadow. They show without showing themselves. They teach with wisdom: Ghosts tell us where we come from, and where we are going. Bernardo Esquinca and Vicente Quirarte. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Los últimos hijos
Read moreTitle Los últimos hijos Author Ramos Revillas, Antonio Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078486199 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 264 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Irene and Alberto are a young couple living in the city of Monterrey. Their perfect and stable middle-class life is turned upside down when the pregnancy they were so excited about is interrupted and they lose the child who would complete their happiness. But tragedies do not come alone, and a gang of thieves desecrates the couple's home. In a desperate and blind attempt to balance their lives, the protagonists will become the perpetrators and rob the thieves of a very precious possession. Then comes an escape along the roads of the north of the country. In these passages, the novelist offers beautiful and hallucinatory descriptions of the desert, its mountains, its vastness and its towns, until the moment arrives when each character confronts their deepest and most unspeakable feelings. This disturbing novel confirms Antonio Ramos as a first-rate narrator. It is a reflection on the nature of the human being, that being tormented by his desires, always determined to seek his happiness in the place that seems to be the least suitable. Antonio Ramos recently received the 2015 UANL Arts Award for his literary career. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Palmeras de la brisa rápida
Read moreTitle Palmeras de la brisa rápida Author Villoro, Juan Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667291 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 207 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Palmeras de la brisa rápido is one of Juan Villoro's most famous chronicles and a classic of Latin American travel literature. With a personal search as its driving force and a publishing commission as its chassis, this agile story concentrates an innumerable quantity of wonders that only the "sister republic" of Yucatan has been able to engender thanks to its history, geography and taste for syncretism: pyramids that are too arduous, dishes of an unsurpassed baroque style, ubiquitous souvenir sellers, dentures exported abroad, a very unique Spanish: the infinite wonders of Yucatecan culture. With an eagerness born from the search for his own roots, Villoro - son and grandson of Yucatecans - brings together a diverse series of characters inside the legendary Volkswagen in which he traveled the peninsula: the chess player who challenged Capablanca, troubadours who renew the eternal art of dying of love, the most courteous of hard rock groups, a socialist baseball league. Ultimately, and as the author himself defined it, this is a journey to a narrative style but, above all, to an emotional destination. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
¿Hacia donde van los animales?
Read moreTitle ¿Hacia donde van los animales? Author Toledo, Francisco Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667277 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 145 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In 2010, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca and the publishing house Almadía celebrated the seventieth birthday of the painter Francisco Toledo by publishing in complicity a collection of poems written about the work and the person of the artist and selected by Ernesto Lumbreras and Efraín Velasco. In addition to being festive, this edition resolved the gap left by the publication Toledo: la línea metafórica, published by Miguel Flores Ramírez in 1998. Of modest circulation and currently controversial as a bibliographic rarity, it began to bring together the works of poets seduced by the painter's eroticized territory. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Demonia
Read moreTitle Demonia Author Esquinca, Bernardo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667352 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 167 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The time I wrote this book coincides, curiously, with a period of happiness in my life. Something that is apparently inexplicable, because it is a dense volume of stories that appeals to the fear of the deer. What was it then that led me to bring out my darkest side? I can speculate that, paradoxically, it was stability. After seven years in Mexico City, I had finally adapted to it; I was ready to make it the main protagonist of my narrative. I lived and worked in the Center; the influence of its streets, buildings and characters began to be decisive in the reconfiguration of my imagination. Another important detail: Demonia is the only book I have written by hand. When the idea of "Moscas" came to me, the first story, my computer was being fixed by a technician; I felt that I had to write it or the idea would escape me, so I wrote it in a notebook. I liked the slow, reflective pace that my clumsy handwriting forced me to follow. After finishing the story, I decided to do the rest of the collection using that obsolete method. I have no doubt that the weight of the ink and the texture of the paper contributed to my signing a pact with my Dark Half. Whether they travel to Santo Domingo, like the couple over whom a family curse hangs ("Samaná"), to Guanajuato like the brothers who are consumed by the secret power of poetry ("Manuscript Found in an Empty Apartment") or to the Tapalpa forest, where a supernatural force puts an end to a reunion of old schoolmates ("Demonia"), the protagonists of these nine stories fulfill their destiny to discover that "hell is here." There is no escape from the flames, even if we are happy. Bernardo Esquinca foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Educar a los topos
Read moreTitle Educar a los topos Author Fadanelli, Guillermo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667376 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 153 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis When reason goes on holiday, then life, naked and bitter, presents itself without any invitation, and the facts take on an all-too-real weight. Something like this happened to me during my time at school until I was just over 17 years old. Once handed over and submitted to the military institution, I had to suffer the sword, the mockery, the whip, the expulsion from the adolescent paradise. Educating the moles is a novel that became a myth of my own life, a late atonement. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Malacara
Read moreTitle Malacara Author Fadanelli, Guillermo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667383 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 236 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The first thing I could say about Orlando Malacara - the character who gives order and chaos to this novel - is that his favorite pastime is hiding. I couldn't even say it's a pastime, but something more important or transcendent: a necessity. He finds pleasure in hiding and spying, and when he appears in public he does so with the sole purpose of pretending to be a normal person and not arousing suspicion. He takes his modesty to unhealthy levels and his main hobby is hanging around from the window of his house, located on the edge of the Tacubaya neighborhood: a curious way of observing the movement of the world. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Mar negro
Read moreTitle Mar negro Author Esquinca, Bernardo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667369 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 186 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis For a time I lived near the pyramids of the Templo Mayor. I walked every day through the streets of the Historic Center, paying attention to the signs. I am convinced that Mexico City wants to tell me stories, and that destiny is palpable in the stories of Mar Negro: the most emblematic building on the Eje Central called upon its different avatars in "Torre Latino", the eternal FOR RENT sign on an old building made me imagine the secret history of the city in "Like two drops of water falling into the sea"; a helpless neighbor and his suspicious attitude led me to invent a double life for him in "The Blind Man"; the Plaza de las Tres Culturas and its bloody past suggested a just revenge, in zombie style, in "The Other Night of Tlatelolco". Apart from my obsession with the place that once housed the Great Tenochtitlán, there is much more in these pages. Mutant creatures that thrive in the shelter of the Bacalar lagoon; A pair of twins connected to Neil Armstrong and the dark side of the Moon; a woman determined to revive her dead lover at any cost; a collector of haunted dolls who receives a mysterious gift; and a vampire who escapes from his grave in the Bulgarian town of Sozopol. This last reference to the Black Sea represents for me the spirit of the book: a state of the soul where the supernatural is possible. An extension that, above all, is located within the mind; in the superstitions and abysses created by the imagination. To understand it, it is necessary to swim in the depths of these waters. Bernardo Esquinca. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Peces del aire altísimo
Read moreTitle Peces del aire altísimo Author Quirarte, Vicente Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667079 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 237 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The main idea of Peces del aire altisísimo is that poetry, as a vital impulse and ultimate vocation of a life, is not restricted exclusively to the texts of those who construct it with their incessant work. On the contrary, this inclination towards the construction of new corridors and rooms of our home that is language, extends into the daily life of every poet. Gilberto Owen, Carlos Pellicer, Luis Cernuda, Rubén Bonifaz Núño, Alí Chumacero and Efraín Huerta are some of the poets whose life and work are woven together by Vicente Quirarte in this book, to show that the daily choices, the poet's own habits and obsessions, as well as his vices and virtues, are not only the inexorable consequence of his personality, but extensions of his literary work itself; expansions of the prodigious worlds that they built with their pen. Thanks to the erudition of a committed and passionate reader, but also with the closeness and intimacy of a friend, Quirarte offers wonderful portraits of characters whose words have already found their place as the pinnacles of Mexican literature. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Examen extraordinario
Read moreTitle Examen extraordinario Author Villoro, Juan Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667659 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 312 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis A mariachi with serious identity conflicts, quarrels between writers that go back to bellicose youthful encounters in writing workshops, emails sent from somewhat uncertain planes of existence, the countercultural odyssey of a father to ingratiate himself with his daughter, multiple modalities of that variation of masochism known as romance, the anthology Examen ejemplar, prepared by the author himself, condenses the techniques, strategies and narrative motifs of one of the most outstanding literary careers of today. More than a gesture of triumphalism, this volume has a desire for a second chance. The stories gathered here await a second encounter with the reader, the final arbiter of all literature. But this revenge is not granted due to any failure, but as confirmation of the qualities of an extraordinary pen. The vision of the chronicler, the scope of the novelist, the subtle ability to move the playwright: the arsenal of resources of an author as unique as Juan Villoro is presented in this volume to an extraordinary examination in which, without a doubt, the one who will come out ahead is a genre that does not allow distractions: the short story. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
La piel insomne
Read moreTitle La piel insomne Author Montiel, Mauricio Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667468 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 256 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The selection of stories that make up La piel insomne is, in the author’s words, a kind of director’s version, a settling of scores with certain texts written and published between 1987 and 1993, and which were originally included in the books Donde la piel es tu tibio silencio, Páginas para una siesta húmeda and Insomnios del otro lado. In addition, the final section, “Bonus tracks”, brings together five stories that appeared in periodical publications or anthologies, but which have not been collected in books. Montiel Figueiras dared to venture down the paths of revision and rewriting, to reorder the index of a book that tells us about his first years as a narrator, a time when he already demonstrated a writing fluency and a literary ability that have led him to occupy a prominent place among the authors of his generation. These stories display the prose that characterizes the writer's work: a sinuous reality plagued by labyrinths, threatening or sensual presences that threaten to change the world, plots that lead us to discover the darkness that inhabits every thing and being that inhabits the universe. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Los filósofos ante los animales II
Read moreTitle Los filósofos ante los animales II Author Linares Salgado, Jorge Enrique; Flores Farfán, Leticia Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667420 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 220 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Various thinkers have insisted that the Renaissance has shaped our image of the world, in which human beings are seen as the owners of nature. On the other hand, the epistemological and technical developments of these centuries allowed the expansion of the human sphere, and the unraveling of natural laws increased man's capacity to influence his environment. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Señales distantes
Read moreTitle Señales distantes Author Vásquez, Antonio Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667963 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 163 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In “Prima materia,” a young acolyte suffers from a strange illness – or curse – due to which his body slowly takes on the texture of a rock. In “La jaula,” the gift that a suitor buys for a girl is rejected, which turns it into a symbol of failure. A Mexican tourist is taken by a young Japanese woman to her small coastal town, where they will take an unexpected role in an ancestral rite, in “El sueño de la esposa del pescador.” “Señales lejanos” tells the story of a mother who is looking for her missing daughter. In “Insomnio,” a man is kidnapped after a sleepless night; his memories let us know that his sleepless nights have a tragic origin. In “Déjà vu,” a woman and her writer husband find themselves trapped in a time loop. “Gestación” tells the story of a young couple who work in a pozolería to guarantee the material support of the child they are expecting; Here, the child and the raw material of his work end up coinciding in a terrifying way. “Gnossienne” has as its protagonist a musician made a prophet by a post-apocalyptic humanity that does not know noise. Finally, “Rebis” is an intense mystical journey full of hermetic allusions. Antonio Vásquez surprises us again with his narrative mastery, this time with a book of short stories whose stories are intertwined with each other, like the sounds of an orchestra that amalgamate until they become an extraordinary symphony. The characters in these stories seem to assure us that where the deepest human pains and obsessions exist, its most fervent desires, a door opens for the extraordinary to take place. The fantastic in Antonio Vásquez's stories is not presented as a handful of magical acts but as a way of seeing and feeling the world, as the mythical thread that connects our intimate daily deaths and resurrections with the mystery of creation: the cycle of the origin of life and its inevitable destruction. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Persona
Read moreTitle Persona Author Seguro, Yolanda Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667819 Edition number 2 Publication year 2020 Pages 99 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis It is necessary to stop understanding the person as a thing that has the capacity to say “I”. A person is not a natural thing or a decree, it is not a substance but a relationship. “A person is something that laughs,” writes Yolanda Segura. Who laughs, what laughs? This book is important, because in it Segura has taken the concept of a person (inaccurate, contradictory and insufficient) and has taken it to a universal code, showing us the intelligence of poetry activated by the lucidity of its discernment. She scrutinizes, sniffs and investigates the inside/outside of what we are, that being, individual, subject or similar and its multiple connotations and imaginaries. We must look carefully: What does the author collect? What has she decided to record? Persona is an extraordinary book, and not only in Mexican poetry, it is a novel, documented and deeply thought-out meditation. We know that there is no discipline that can provide conclusive results on the person/non-human person problem and that is why we need to go further: to poetry as an intuitive and instinctive vision, as a cosmic idea, unify yourself. If person is an incomprehensible hybrid that even surpasses the status of what we are used to calling “the human,” what defines us? Where do we live? Where are the signs of what we are? Surely, we know that the investigation can only take place in the work with language. (Carla Faesler) foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Una ballena es un país
Read moreTitle Una ballena es un país Author Zapata, Isabel Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667864 Edition number 2 Publication year 2020 Pages 112 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In this collection of poems, Isabel Zapata advances along the path of what I will call the ethics of consideration: the ability to take into account the experience of others and act accordingly. While some of us are barely testing this terrain—David Foster Wallace wrote a chronicle to consider lobsters and I wrote a long time ago a consideration of manatees—Isabel Zapata has immersed herself in this ethics with an entire book of animal considerations. At the beginning, regarding shark eggs, she recommends: “Consider their violent geometry,” and in this verse resonates the tiger that William Blake also considered long ago. In A Whale Is a Country, Zapata considers cetaceans, felines, rhinoceroses, pets, and extinct beasts. I see in this book by Zapata the seed of a new heterodox humanism, a humanism that, in the recognition of our animal condition, unites us with the beasts and plants that our voracity is ravaging. I recognize myself in each of these poems, because they give voice to the desire, more human than any other, of not being left alone in the world, isolated, furious and repressed. (Jorge Comensal) foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Las agujas dementes
Read moreTitle Las agujas dementes Author Volpi, Jorge Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667970 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 160 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis What happens when love, intelligence, genius and poetry are not enough? Where do you run to when it seems that what you are looking for is to return? Through scenes of neat simplicity, Jorge Volpi turns the darkness of private life into the light of public life, showing us that severity and sadness hide behind the smallest acts. Volpi dramatizes the intense and stormy relationship between Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Assia and David Wevill and invites the reader to draw back the curtain that covers the strength and weakness of two brilliant women who, because of the same illness, ended their lives in the same way. Las agujas dementes explores in each act the paths of life, poetry and suicide. In this new installment, Volpi once again shows us the versatility of his writing, where each word takes on an incendiary character more than ever. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
El hombre mal vestido
Read moreTitle El hombre mal vestido Author Fadanelli, Guillermo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667406 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 264 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Esteban Arévalo is a man who dresses badly. This would not be of great importance if it were not for the fact that the disheveled appearance of his worn-out old clothes – which he continues to wear out of conviction, not necessity – arouses the deepest distrust among his neighbors in the Tacubaya neighborhood: rumors point to him as the main suspect of having committed eight murders. Blaise Rodríguez, the narrator of this story, is determined to prove Esteban Arévalo’s innocence. Contrary to the roughness that people expect from a guy who takes so little care in his attire, the protagonist is rather kind, polite and quite cultured. Would it be possible for a man with no major existential aspirations and who remains gentle even when he is treated with rejection to become a cruel murderer? What would be his reasons for killing? The Badly Dressed Man poses a critical reflection on murder, intolerance and fear of difference, in a present of extreme violence where physical appearance takes on radical importance as a crucible of status, identity and class aspirations. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
La muerte de la lengua inglesa
Read moreTitle La muerte de la lengua inglesa Author Moscona, Myriam Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667802 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 112 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Myriam Moscona enunciates the death of the English language through twenty-nine poems written around the death of artists whose work was written in English – such as Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Lord Byron, Leonard Cohen, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop and Anne Sexton, among others. The author investigates language with the curiosity and wit that distinguish her, to find in words their powerful plasticity to create sounds and images. Beyond the playful composition that distances the poems from funereal solemnity, there is something disconcerting: why would the English language die? If English is the most widely spoken language in the world, the lingua franca of communications, business and science, what would have to happen – besides the death of its most excellent poets – for the English language to disappear? foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Prosas de guerra y esperanza: Efraín Huerta en “El Popular” (1939-1944)
Read moreTitle Prosas de guerra y esperanza: Efraín Huerta en “El Popular” (1939-1944) Author Ugalde Quintana, Sergio Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667437 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 592 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis During the years when the threat of the extreme right was taking on a global scope, the public scene in Mexico was disputed between the progressive faction affiliated with the government of Lázaro Cárdenas del Río and a reaction that opposed his policies and did not hide the sympathy that the fascist regimes of Europe inspired in it. In accordance with the demands of the times, the young poet Efraín Huerta did not hesitate to appeal to a “moral, psychological and aesthetic” definition of the artist or the intellectual. It is not surprising, then, the combative tone of many of his contributions to the newspaper that the Cardenistas founded to counteract the attacks that the media conglomerates launched against his government: El Popular. In the not inconsiderable universe of these spaces, until now forgotten by literary historiography and which are presented in this necessary volume, the different facets of a fundamental trajectory for Mexican letters can be read. Although it would seem that political commentary was the main driving force behind Huerta's pen in these columns, they also have room for a diverse spectrum of registers and interests: popular speech, urban spaces, literary reviews, among others. Of all the scenarios outlined in Huerta's more than one thousand one hundred contributions to El Popular, two stand out for their centrality: on the one hand, the political denunciation of world and Mexican fascism; on the other, the response of poetry - and of literature and art in general - to this overwhelming reality. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
¿Hay vida en la tierra?
Read moreTitle ¿Hay vida en la tierra? Author Villoro, Juan Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667222 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 445 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In Is There Life on Earth? Juan Villoro offers us a broad sample of his ability to analyze our present and manages to make sense of the untamed daily life when organized into a story. In these pages, the author analyzes the strange mystery of being Mexican, undertakes the arduous task of changing his mattress, develops a theory of mariachi, witnesses a confession by the Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oé, meets two turtles in the Dachau concentration camp, opens a suitcase that contains the pain of Republican exile, faces the enormous challenge of asking for a cappuccino and is mistaken for a priest. With Is There Life on Earth? Almadía reached one hundred published titles. Therefore, it was only logical to celebrate with a volume made up of one hundred stories characterized by addictive prose and a hilarious catalog of paranoias, misunderstandings, annoyances and illusions that make up daily life. Seven years after its appearance in our publishing house, and after the publication of two hundred other titles, we are pleased to see that Is There Life on Earth? remains one of the most sought-after titles in our catalogue, which shows us that there are and will continue to be new readers willing to search for the forms that life takes on Earth. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
¿Te veré en el desayuno?
Read moreTitle ¿Te veré en el desayuno? Author Fadanelli, Guillermo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667116 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 184 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Tragedy is ridiculous because it is always watching and lurking at the foot of our door, and when it appears and makes us stumble, when it makes us more aware of our mortality, then all we have left is laughter, mockery, and ridicule in front of the mirror. Chance has been the bond that unites the relationship of Ulysses, Adolfo, Olivia, Cristina and the Bishop, the characters in Will I See You at Breakfast? They all find themselves in the center of a city that serves as a hostile womb, a burrow, a geography to inhabit. Their dreams or aspirations become absurd because they are real and have consequences. They themselves are the cause and the withered effect, they occupy the most different pieces of the human board, they suffer and love each other, but their love is a necessity, a desperate invention. Today, so many years later, my perspective has not changed and when I reread the novel I find that its gravity continues to affect me, it bothers me and frees me, it makes me feel part of a family that extends to the end point of my literary universe: burden and victory of tragedy. Guillermo Fadanelli foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Cameron
Read moreTitle Cameron Author Ronsino, Hernán Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667017 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 113 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Cameron, an elderly man with an artificial leg, has good reasons for not crossing certain precise boundaries of the city in which he lives. He spends his days contemplating the landscape, mountains, snow, a changing sky, and goes out for walks at night, sometimes to the pier, sometimes to the Jazz Club, sometimes to wander. One night, after a strange party and an early morning of which he remembers nothing, Cameron must take refuge in his neighbor Orsini's house, because the police are looking for him, although he does not know the reason. While he wonders what happened during the lost hours, the protagonist establishes a new relationship with his body and with the strange man who helps him. In this novel by Hernán Ronsino we find once again the Argentine region that the author has focused on mapping, one in which the past and the present are in permanent conflict, the stage in which individual identity and collective memory are played out. His narrative materials, volatile and enigmatic, sustain a tension that leads us through labyrinths of memory and perception toward the core of a mystery that reaches us to this day. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
El animal sobre la piedra
Read moreTitle El animal sobre la piedra Author Tarazona, Daniela Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667215 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 184 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The Animal on the Stone or The Fable of the Egg are the same novel. I had those titles and decided that the first one was more enigmatic and perhaps lyrical, because the second one could be related to some episode in the kitchen, at breakfast time. The book can be read in one sitting, I have been told. So the reader gets up more or less early, has breakfast and then reads it, he will be free by midday and can take advantage of the rest of Saturday or Sunday. It is possible that he will get hungry in the meantime and even want to eat red meat because the protagonist goes to the supermarket and buys meat. It is also possible that he will have a desire to eat insects. None of that matters, either way. If the reader wants to escape, he can do so, that is his right. The first line will warn him of what he can find later: “My house was the territory of an extraordinary event.” Daniela Tarazona foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
El rastro
Read moreTitle El rastro Author Glantz, Margo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667208 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 184 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The Trace is a text that talks about a burial, and the feelings of the protagonist when she contemplates the body of a man with whom she lived for a long time, whom she has stopped seeing and whom she sees again, now bloodless, and the memory of that body when it was alive and shared a very intense love relationship with the person who looks at it. But, by doing so, that is, by reviving it in writing, the decay of the body is cancelled. Writing allows us to give life to things again. Of course, writing is, on a certain level, a dead body by the very fact that it is something that is written and the book is an object, but by having the possibility of writing, of recreating something, life is recovered. This is the most beautiful thing about writing, the possibility of resurrecting that which disappears. Margo Glantz. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
El tren
Read moreTitle El tren Author López García, Nadia Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667246 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 48 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The train has stopped in a dormant and still time, it is time, it is the time of memory, of waiting. My mother says that soon we will return to this land where my navel was buried, where the morning cicada sings and the flowers never die. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx
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