Category: ALMADIA
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La polca de los osos
Read moreTitle La polca de los osos Author Glantz, Margo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764662 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 408 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis This book is called The Bear Polka, a title that is perhaps enigmatic, it comes from a poem by Paul Celan, one of those obsessive poems by the poet: “Audible remains, visible remains in/ the thousand and one bedroom. Day and night/ the bear polka…”, verses that perhaps suggest a clumsy and bestial combat, at the same time the remains, what remains of what has been irrevocably lost and we would like to recover with nostalgia. And in reality, this is what my book is about: a book in which obsessive texts accumulate that complement and fight each other and give an account of several of my obsessions: eroticism, sexuality, discrimination, the struggle of women to have their own bodies, persecution, holocausts, the different and emerging forms of fascism that seems to never die completely, but rather recreate itself, to strike again. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
La compañia
Read moreTitle La compañia Author Gerber Bicecci, Verónica Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764860 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 216 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis “Any unhappy life can always become a hell,” Amparo Dávila once said in a story. La Compañía, by Verónica Gerber Bicecci, looks at this warning from its mirror: “any bonanza can always become an unhappy life,” by rewriting one of the most famous stories of the Zacatecan woman. As a premonition, this story reveals the psychological, environmental and social consequences that extractive projects produce in the territories where they are located. With photographs, diagrams, testimonies, reports and interviews, as well as elements of La máquina estética by the Zacatecan visual artist Manuel Felguérez, La Compañía reconstructs the history of Nuevo Mercurio, Zacatecas, a town where an abandoned and ruined mine haunts the collective memory. Writing appears here as an extractive gesture: a formal and conceptual exploration of the processes of dispossession involved in contemporary mining. This book avoids any precise classification and confirms that there is no category that suffices to describe the work of Verónica Gerber Bicecci: rewriting, photography, narrative, chronicle, fantastic story, science fiction. Writing appears here as a critical, formal and conceptual exploration of the processes of dispossession involved in contemporary mining. The Company haunts our present and embodies that monstrous creature that confronts us with the difficult question about the future. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Moisés en la llanura
Read moreTitle Moisés en la llanura Author Xuetao, Shuang Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851324 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 160 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Covered in snow, under the shadows that characterize the margins that progress has forgotten to illuminate, and guarded by the gaze of a gigantic concrete helmsman, these two short novels transport us to a cold city in the northeast of China. There, a murder weapon revives the case of a series of murders that went unsolved, and a man drowning in debt decides to show those he has defrauded that they were not wrong to trust him. With a lacerating sobriety, the prose of Shuang Xuetao, one of the most celebrated young authors in contemporary China, interweaves times in which violence and disenchantment are the common factor: a past of social turmoil and rampant industrialization, a present of abandonment and the intermediate days in which utopia was transformed into fierce competition. This volume is the presentation in Spanish of one of the most exciting writings of the Asian continent, a work whose assimilation of the best Western literature shows us that, in the midst of the crudest realism, an overwhelming hope for a future without adjectives can emerge. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Serie de circunstancias posibles en torno a una mujer mexicana de clase trabajadora
Read moreTitle Serie de circunstancias posibles en torno a una mujer mexicana de clase trabajadora Author Segura, Yolanda Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851331 Edition number 2 Publication year 2023 Pages 80 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In the space that poetry opens between the flow of everyday words, a series of possible circumstances surrounding a working-class Mexican woman, she analyzes one of the core concepts of the capitalist economy. What is the “middle class”? Who is part of it? Is there a way to describe it, to count it? Are its members defined by the calculation of their income, what they own or dream of? By their future projects? While reflecting on these questions, Yolanda Segura tells the story of Eloísa, a woman born in the 1940s who has worked since she was very young. With a stable job and a secure salary, she soon faces the possibility of getting married and having a family. She wants to guarantee herself a prosperous and happy existence. Will it be enough to have a husband, to work her day, to obtain a mortgage loan? Why does the economic growth of a person or a country always happen in the future and never in the present? Do financial benefits increase social well-being? In the midst of inflation and wage cuts, of crisis and debt, how will she manage her time, desires and affections? Are there other ways to invent a livable life for a working woman? For Yolanda Segura, a poem is a form of resistance, a way of cancelling the economic value of language. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Silencio
Read moreTitle Silencio Author Mendoza, Clyo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851393 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 184 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis After a day in the fields, all that remains is silence. It seems that nothing is happening anymore, but in the privacy of homes, in the bends of roads and on the banks of rivers, things continue to happen. Águeda wants to know where her mother’s body is, while she tries to maintain mourning in a town where organized crime keeps death in perpetual stalking. Her pain is an affront and the furious audacity with which she demands a grave deserves to be punished. As in a second birth, the young woman must transform herself in order to continue living. This new gestation gives her the possibility of perceiving the world, of listening to the stories that birds tell; of loving and experiencing the beauty that happens despite the horror. Recognized with the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz International Poetry Prize 2017, Silence tells the story of one of the forty thousand disappearances recorded in Mexico; it tells the story of an unrecognized body among the thousands that have been left without a name. Clyo Mendoza chooses poetry to reveal what happens in the shadows and to build a tribute to the disappeared through the effort to see life in death. This writing is not only a way of embodying the unspeakable, but of offering a burial that was denied. It is the word as a mortuary rite. A flame that lights up the darkness. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Planetas habitables
Read moreTitle Planetas habitables Author Diaz Castelo, Elisa Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851409 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 128 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Each reader is a world, and if we pay enough attention, so is every entity that surrounds him: the chair that supports him, the lamp that lights up his reading, the book he holds in his hands, the tiny nematode that flies over his head. Between each of these worlds, an incessant exchange takes place, an affective and material economy that transforms them. There are even encounters between them of such violence that we can think of them as collisions, great impacts that generate new worlds, with unprecedented links and flashes. In Habitable Planets, Elisa Díaz Castelo traces, thanks to a writing in which the words of science take on an unexpected sensuality and the subtleties of life spread the pleasure of irony, a meticulous map that seeks to account for the intricate network of connections deployed around us at every moment. If today there are those who think that, in the face of the announced disaster, the solution is the search for new worlds, in this collection of poems we are invited to find in language the reasons to keep habitable the singular complexity that shapes us and of which we are a part. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Carcoma
Read moreTitle Carcoma Author Martínez, Layla Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851430 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 128 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In a village in the Spanish countryside, a house is shaking. The windows are slamming, the roofs are narrowing, the walls are slamming down on whoever crosses the threshold of the door. Inside, voices, scratches, cries, and furniture are heard. The house is crying out for things, it is hungry. Its inhabitants – a grandmother and her granddaughter – have learned to live with the shadows in the corners, with the beings hiding under the beds and the dead who arrive tired from crossing the mountain. Built with the money that the great-grandfather earned by prostituting women, the house is the heritage of a family that, along with the walls, has inherited resentment and rage. After the war that devastated the territory but kept the dynamics of power and social classes intact, this home protects while it suffocates. More than a refuge, the house is a condemnation, a curse from which one cannot escape. A place where resentment never stops drilling into the body and the perfect setting for them to cook up their revenge. With exceptional literary skill, Layla Martínez has told a story that is already a literary event in Spain and several other countries. Venturing into terror, Carcoma touches our deepest sensibilities to awaken fear and the bittersweet memory of family ties. While placing gender and class violence in its proper dimension as authentic horror stories, it reminds us that love, hate and trauma are also inherited through blood. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Genética de los monos
Read moreTitle Genética de los monos Author Ramírez, María José Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851492 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 248 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis At her father's insistence that she write the family history, María José Rangel finds herself faced with a riddle. If telling a story is narrating with words what exists between a beginning and an end, through writing she will try to give meaning to the puzzle of births, accidents, deaths, unions and separations that weave the family epic. Amidst a collection of memories and nostalgia, she will also find the story of her own body and identity. Nicknamed by her sisters as Monkey Brain in allusion to the father's foolish gesture of injecting himself with monkey hormones in order to conceive her, Majo will not only chronicle those who share her genes, but also the other loves that have gradually joined her pack. Winner of the Aura Estrada International Prize in 2011, María José Ramírez has written a novel that is an altar of memory. By portraying with honesty and humor the bonds of human affections, revealing their sweet and cruel complexity, the author has built a home for ghosts, trees, wild beasts and the pristine waters of the sea. A beautiful mausoleum to pay homage to the dead and which is, therefore, a luminous celebration of life. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
No fue penal
Read moreTitle No fue penal Author Villoro, Juan Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851508 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 104 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis It Wasn't a Penalty offers two versions of the same play. In dramatic fashion, this move brings together two friends whom fate has turned into enemies. El Tanque is the manager of a team that will be relegated to the second division if they lose the match. From his small prison as a technical director, he faces something more than the score: his future and his past are at stake. With his throat torn to pieces, he fights against the clumsiness of his own players and the decisions of the referee. Meanwhile, he is observed by Valeriano Fuentes, the former friend with whom he shared a tragedy that changed their lives and who is now in charge of the implacable justice of the VAR. For years, Juan Villoro, winner of the Manuel Vázquez Montalbán International Award for Dios es redondo, has written chronicles and essays on football. This time he uses two complementary narratives to tell a story about sporting passion, brotherhood and rivalries, and to explore the theatrical condition of those who intervene in the game from off the field. Controversial plays depend on who watches them. It Wasn't a Penalty brings to light a disconcerting condition of sport: what is legitimate for some is an insult for others. The match is stopped and the action is reviewed by the VAR. What will be the verdict? Two very different stories explain this disturbing moment of decision. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Transporte a la infancia
Read moreTitle Transporte a la infancia Author Cartas, Frida Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851447 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 152 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Here, memory is not cloudy. There are traces that have been left clean after the insatiable trampling of violence. Wherever this story takes place, the heat of the climate is tempered and what boils is the horror of prejudice. Father, mother, son, daughter, boy, girl, good, bad, yes, no: inside these pages the world struggles between dualisms and those who do not fit in there are denied, mistreated, excluded. Through everyday anecdotes we learn about the events that determined the identity of the author and various aspects of reality rarely explored in literature. Frida Cartas recalls a childhood that left no space for her name, nor for her voice, nor for her body. In some stories, an unusual tenderness prevails; in many, the crudeness of incessant abuse; In others, an inexplicable humor or a coldness that dissects events to tell us something: that the most atrocious violence can inhabit our bodies, but also the most lively and resilient courage towards life. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Caballo fantasma
Read moreTitle Caballo fantasma Author Sosa Castañeda, Karina Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851348 Edition number 2 Publication year 2023 Pages 120 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In a room in the city of Oaxaca, a young architect writes and reads the diaries she has accumulated over ten years. Her mother died six hundred days ago. The only thing Ka knows about her is that she suffered from a nervous illness and loved horses. Leonora, her mother, has always been a ghost. While she adjusts to her return to the city, her new job, the streets, love and libraries, Ka searches for her own story and investigates her mother's life and her passionate equine hobby. Leonora is a blank space, a mystery that Ka will try to solve with a writing that oscillates between memories, quotes and literary references. Throughout a patient and crystalline prose, this novel reflects on absence, lies, loneliness, family stories and the capacity of human beings to tell themselves the stories that give them identity and define their place in the world. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
La mirada de las plantas
Read moreTitle La mirada de las plantas Author Paz Soldán, Edmundo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764952 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 264 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In this novel, the extractive past and present of the Amazon are intertwined within the framework of a disturbing and lysergic environment. Fleeing from scandal, the protagonist of this story takes refuge in a laboratory where an enigmatic investigation is being carried out. With the intention of creating the most advanced virtual reality video game, a team led by the charismatic Dr. Dunn seeks to reproduce the hallucinogenic effects of an ancient plant known as “sky wing.” A duel of shadows soon begins in which it is difficult to discern who has more to hide. Perhaps only the mythical wing can guide the way out of this labyrinth of illusions. In The Gaze of Plants, Edmundo Paz Soldán manages to amalgamate a wide series of literary motifs to formulate urgent questions about our time, in which the seductive power of screens seems to trap us with their promises of satisfaction and plenitude. Dystopia and fantasy literature are enveloped by the dense foliage of the jungle – that fragile titan in danger of disappearing – to take to the extreme the minds of beings that wander through this world with their wounds open, raw. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx
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