Category: ALMADIA
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En blanco
Read moreTitle En blanco Author Bu, Catalina Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667178 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 120 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis A collection of drawings, sketches, thoughts. Those that appear when you sit at your desk in front of a blank sheet of paper, full of expectations and the desire to do something impressive, the project of the year, your masterpiece, but it goes wrong because of nerves, you get angry, it comes out forced, nothing to do with what you imagine. The inspiring music then turns into an unbearable noise, you think: Why did I dedicate myself to this? I should have studied something else. I haven't had any water. Did I take out the trash? You get up from your chair, throw yourself on the bed and put on stripes anything to calm yourself down and get through the bad time. A giant rock on top of a tiny character. A square inside another square inside another square. That's where lucidity lies. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
En busca de la ayahuasca y otros desvíos
Read moreTitle En busca de la ayahuasca y otros desvíos Author Theroux, Paul Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078486984 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 259 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis This fascinating volume brings together material written over a period of fourteen years by one of the most prestigious English-language authors of today. In this selection of essays, Paul Theroux offers us an intimate self-portrait through sharp reflections on his own interests, passions, experiences and, above all, through the inexhaustible curiosity of his thought. In these pages we find unique pieces of literary criticism, in which the author's obsessions are revealed to us thanks to shrewd essays on very particular and enormous characters. On the other hand, he offers us interesting reflections on collecting, altruism, the craft of writing, and the passion for reading. Finally, there could not be missing travel writings, in which Paul Theroux's continuous search for what makes places and people real becomes palpable. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
La corazonada
Read moreTitle La corazonada Author Gifford, Barry Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667253 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 184 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis «Barry Gifford, the father of Perdita Durango and Romeo Dolorosa, is known for his fondness for giving his fictional characters sonorous and picturesque names... What is behind Gifford's fondness for picturesque appellations? » Many things: the loneliness of the border, of that mythical territory between the United States and Mexico, and the loneliness of all men... portraits turned to dust and wind. » Roberto Bolaño In the border region between Coahuila and Texas, near Piedras Negras, a tribe of Seminole Indians seeks to escape persecution by the United States government. The blood and culture of the Creeks and the black slaves who have escaped from the plantations live and mix there; together they look for a place to live and prosper in peace. The Mexican government offers them Birth in exchange for fighting against the local native rebels. However, this territory is more porous and conflictive than it seems at first glance and, as the story progresses, the battle fronts multiply. Cass Dupuy, a retired ranger, will try all kinds of alliances to get a cut of the inhuman business of slavery. Teresa, his daughter, is a brave young woman who flees from her father's ranch in the company of Sonny, the son of a legendary Seminole chief. These characters trace, at the center of the story, a story of love and revenge that opens a path between blood and bullets. The hunch leads us through a territory of adventure and heroism. Barry Gifford is one of those rare writers who moves us, touches us and shakes us on the same page. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Llamadas de Ámsterdam
Read moreTitle Llamadas de Ámsterdam Author Villoro, Juan Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667147 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 80 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis There are images that are here to stay. The silhouette of Jesús Juan, the protagonist of Llamadas de Amsterdam, dressed in his heavy overcoat and walking in the rain along one of the most emblematic streets of Mexico City, is one of them. This confirms the vitality that this short novel maintains in the public's taste ten years after its publication. The vertigo of all amorous impetus, the precision of silences, the subtle and charismatic humor, an atmosphere that captures the elegance of restlessness: Juan Villoro condenses in these pages the elements of a writing that has managed to produce more than one contemporary classic. Llamadas de Amsterdam is without a doubt one of the most endearing books in our catalog, a title thanks to which a large number of readers have approached our label and have become part of the Almadía family. For this reason, and with the same enthusiasm that has characterized us over ten years, we publish this new edition: So that thanks to it, more people will share this wonderful literary experience. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Los accidentes
Read moreTitle Los accidentes Author Fabbri, Camila Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667000 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 176 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Reality can unfold, break, turn into corners, get out of itself and leave the beings who inhabit it in the most complete defenselessness, in the most captivating darkness. By narrative magic, these stories are like a blind walk that unsettles us, but at the same time seduces us with its mysteries. Children who see their distant characters as threatening their conception of the world. Couples who survive family reunions thanks to the endearing presence of an indescribable creature. Pools that are crossed by swimming, amidst a feeling of imminent anxiety. With a prose that successfully collects the vicissitudes of orality and integrates them concentratedly, the author shows that life may have traps, double bottoms, secret passages, always ready to renew our curiosity for the things that are around us. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Los culpables
Read moreTitle Los culpables Author Villoro, Juan Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667123 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 145 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis When I started working with Almadía, almost three decades ago, they already conceived their collections as a gift for readers. Los Culpables was the first book I designed for them, in 2007. I thought of a graphic proposal that would surprise: the challenge was to bring the colorful, tactile, and artisanal atmosphere of Oaxaca to paper. I knew I had the opportunity to do something different in terms of graphic design. I read the book and had a lot of fun; the stories are short and have an exceptional sense of humor. Talking with the team, we agreed that the emblematic image on the cover should come from the phrase “It was the iguana’s fault,” which opens the fifth story in the book, “The Mayan Twilight.” The double cover of Los Culpables started a double game that survives to this day. At that time, Juan Villoro commented that just as the iguana changes its skin, Almadía’s books are skinnable and the shirt is a second skin that reveals the secret image on the cover. I took a risk with the design because Almadía was open to change. Perhaps the shirt die is the most daring one we have ever printed: the reptile was too big and in the first edition the “second skin” was very fragile. Since then, this work has been reprinted and reissued many times, becoming the one with the most readers in the history of the publishing house. From the first reprint, I modified the design and added a branch that runs through the body of the sauropsid to give greater resistance and strength to the cardboard. To celebrate its seventh anniversary, Almadía published a commemorative edition of this same work in large format, hardcover and illustrated by me. These drawings are tangential glances at Juan’s funny stories. It seemed to me a cacophonous gesture to bring images that are described in the story to the graphic, so I preferred to represent scenes that perhaps could have happened, turning the images into satellites of the author’s narrative universe. In this third edition and eighth reprint, the emblematic lizard lives more discreetly on the cover, and the fact that I wrote the little text you are reading right now is also, without a doubt, the fault of the iguana. Alejandro Magallanes foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Los niños de paja
Read moreTitle Los niños de paja Author Bernardo Esquinca Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667130 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 136 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In August 2003, I made one of the most important decisions of my life: moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City. I was fleeing a marital breakup. I thought the change of scenery would give me distance and perspective on my situation, but it ended up giving me something more vital: a stimulating environment for creation, for a type of narrative that I had been exploring, linked to the supernatural and police, but which found an ideal setting in Mexico City. Friends and editors began to ask me for stories for supplement magazines; without intending to, I had a volume of stories in progress. When I reviewed them, I realized another unplanned factor: the protagonists of my stories were widowed or separated men. It was clear that I was looking to exorcise my divorce through horror literature. The equation seemed valid to me, so I decided to complete the book with that approach. The result was Los niños de paja, a project that marked the beginning of my close relationship with Almadía publishing house. The forensic entomologist in “The Secret Life of Insects” rejects science and tries to solve his wife’s murder with a medium; the writer of “The God of the Pool” travels to paradise to discover the greatest atrocity that a group of married couples can commit, and the heartbroken man in “Love Has No Cure” puts himself in the hands of a fortune teller in search of a miracle that will save his relationship. All of them, along with the rest of the beings that inhabit the nine stories included in these pages, have one objective: never turn their backs on darkness, but embrace it; throw themselves into the abyss and explore it, because reality is as banal as it is unbearable. Time passes and I still agree with that premise. Bernardo Esquinca foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Malversaciones
Read moreTitle Malversaciones Author Bravo Varela, Hernán Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667086 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 144 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The least that can be demanded of an essayist is ingenuity in constructing analogies, elegant memory, a significant arsenal of references that are not entirely outlandish, although they are of an unexpected mold, and, crowning it all, an educated lust for prose. Hernán Bravo Varela conquered these virtues from his youthful writing. Now, with Malversaciones, he gives us eighteen essays of early maturity where the joy of the boy and the disenchantment of experience alternate and caress each other until they merge into a single and delicious breath, a drift that draws from the prose poem as well as from anecdotes, erudition, the little note in verse, literary criticism and the chronicle. Divided into four sections – Mexican poets; foreign authors; places and themes and practices of the poetic; The most beautiful final reflection on the ethos, praxis and politics of art, Malversaciones weaves a praise of deviation and madness, of the staging of corruptibility as a possible refuge for human descendants, of the cry as song and reflection, of hubris and cowardice as practices of the sublime, and it does not shy away from either the elegiac rage at the murder of the poet Guillermo Fernández or the self-parodic tenderness of a failed poetic-terrorist-adolescent attack against Jaime Sabines. It does all this, moreover, as an exhalation: a brief succession of lashes of lucidity, a –these are the author’s words– “patrimonial declaration”, a sort of freehand self-portrait of the reader as prince and beggar of the world. JULIÁN HERBERT foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Nada me faltara
Read moreTitle Nada me faltara Author Molina, José Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667284 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 288 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The place of José Luis Molina Robles in the world of poetry does not necessarily have a relationship with Mexican poetry. Part of it, it is true, but it reaches many other places. Not only because of a question related to Pepe's travels, but because of that emphasis on understanding language as an end in itself that still has a utilitarian nuance foreign to Pepe, the need to understand it as a feat of possibilities, many of them still unexplored. Cristián Gómez O. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Otro día…
Read moreTitle Otro día… Author Gerber Bicecci, Verónica Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667093 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 104 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis In 1977, the Voyager probes were launched into outer space. Inside, the Golden Record carries sounds and images of life on Earth, waiting to be found and deciphered. On the other hand, a hundred years ago, José Juan Tablada published Un día… (poemas synthetics), an advanced and subtle artefact composed of haikus and illustrations made by the poet, in which nature is shown as the muse of avant-garde writing. Simple as a gesture, but complex in its implications and references, Otro día… (poemas synthetics), by Verónica Gerber Bicecci, is an exercise in crossings and rewritings that contrasts with the figure of the muse to make a sharp testimony of our present and a deep questioning of the future: a time that may have ceased to be ours. At the same time, it allows us to think about what kind of memory we leave about ourselves and imagine poetry as a satellite, a vestige that could be interpreted by a new civilization. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Poesía eras tú
Read moreTitle Poesía eras tú Author Hinojosa, Francisco Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667192 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 128 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis I once had a company (I was the boss and had only one employee) dedicated solely to publishing a literary magazine. One of the things I did frequently was fill out power of attorney letters. At that time I went out to buy them at the stationery store, until one day it occurred to me to capture it on my computer and, when necessary, print it. Towards the end of 2007, in a moment of leisure, I reread that document that almost all of us signed without fully understanding the legal terms it contained (“dilatory and peremptory exceptions,” “auctions,” “interlocutory and definitive matters,” etc.) and I decided to compose a love “poem” with those words as a solitary game without the purpose of publication. In June 2008, I was invited to a writers’ meeting in San Luis Potosí. To conclude, we participants were asked to read something from our work. Each one would have a maximum of three minutes. Of course, the poets had plenty to choose from. A writer of short fiction could have read his complete work, but we, the narrators, were left defenseless. Then I remembered that the “poem” entitled Carta poder was on my computer. I transcribed it on a sheet of hotel letterhead and read it. Some of my colleagues liked the game and there was even someone who asked me to give them the manuscript. Back in Mexico City, I asked myself: And who is she, the recipient? From that question was born Poesía eras tú. Francisco Hinojosa foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Profesores, tiranos y otros pinches chamacos
Read moreTitle Profesores, tiranos y otros pinches chamacos Author Hinojosa, Francisco Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667239 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 406 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Subjects whose encyclopedic knowledge leads them to the top and then to the abyss of their biographies, men obsessed with the idea of death, professors determined to teach extremely simple subjects in extremely complicated ways, presidents who want to sell the country they govern to the highest bidder, literary characters who get out of their roles and commit crazy things left and right. Francisco Hinojosa's imagination fractures plots so unpredictable that on each page his stories take unusual turns, become complicated in unexpected ways and always mutate into the craziest version of themselves. The characters have absurd, generally modest lives, they can even be overwhelmed by comfort and boredom, until one day fate takes a turn and their days become a stepping stone to the unexpected. The reader has in his hands the most comprehensive collection of the author's short stories, a map that indicates his hidden depths, his wild desires and the most surprising stories that make him up. This volume represents an event for Francisco Hinojosa's readers and a true honour for our publishing house: it is the celebration of a literary work that, for several decades, has earned the admiration and affection of everyone. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Ciento cincuenta cuentos cortos
Read moreTitle Ciento cincuenta cuentos cortos Author Davis, Lydia Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667260 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 264 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis «As powerful as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert, as defining of an era, in its own way, as Proust.» ALI SMITH (THE GUARDIAN) Lydia Davis is one of the most representative North American writers of our times. With a career that has seen her receive the most prestigious awards of today, her name has been inextricably linked to the genre of the micro-story or flash of fiction, and to a type of writing in which there is no room for excess, but rather for succinct depth. This anthology, personally prepared by the author, gives an account of this complex but precise and meticulous work that continues to surprise more and more readers. With a strong introspective tone, and more concerned with the complex relationship between daily life and language (how to translate everyday experience into words? How do the devices of grammar and syntax affect or transform reality?), these small prose pieces often dispense with the resource of plot to take the form of shrewd meditations, detailed descriptions of obsession, disturbing logical games and words that point out possibilities rather than determining truths. At the same time, this collection is a remarkable reflection on writing as a habit: 150 short stories guided by an admirable intelligence and an exquisite sense of humor. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx
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