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Ää: manifiestos sobre la diversidad lingüística
Read moreTitle Ää: manifiestos sobre la diversidad lingüística Author Aguilar Gil, Yásnaya Elena Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764792 Edition number 2 Publication year 2022 Pages 208 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Reading the articles by Yásnaya Aguilar compiled in this volume, as well as the many comments on social media that accompany and enrich them, is a pleasure that I wholeheartedly recommend to readers. Throughout these texts, as entertaining as they are refreshing, it is clear that Yásnaya Aguilar has been able to see beyond impositions and violence, driven by her deep passion for languages, for linguistics, for literature, to go beyond the confines of her native Ayuujk and her learned Spanish, to approach the most widely spoken languages in the world, such as Russian, but also the countless indigenous languages that throughout the planet are marginalized, threatened and, sometimes, on the verge of extinction. In his unpretentious use of the plain Mexican dialect of Castilian, the constant generosity of his style, his humor and sincerity stand out, which allows him to construct a defense as passionate as it is reasonable, as rigorous as it is entertaining, of the value of indigenous languages, of cultural plurality, of the vitality of the traditions of our native peoples. This clarity also gives greater force to his denunciations against linguistic discrimination, against the contempt for indigenous languages and against the arrogance of the defenders of Spanish as the national language. Written over the course of a decade, this book is destined to be an exponent of an authentic blossoming and renaissance of contemporary thought in indigenous languages. (Federico Navarrete) foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Drenajes
Read moreTitle Drenajes Author Rodríguez Landeros, Diego Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851003 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 168 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The essays in Drenajes form an intricate network through which various narrative flows tell, from multiple perspectives and treatments, the story of water in the basin of the Valley of Mexico. The unexpected link between the drainage channel that runs through the municipality of Ecatepec and a global publishing consortium, the actions of resistance that several towns in the Valley of Mexico sustained against attempts to accumulate water from ancient Tenochtitlán, the hunt for a mythical creature in contemporary Texcoco, the neoliberal disaster that has brought dispossession and contamination to our water bodies; the stories and characters that cross the restless currents of this book are palpable examples of the ways in which writing can be decanted into a political stance and of how fiction manages to provide clarity to the dark events of a murky history. With an extraordinary ability to build relationships, Rodríguez Landeros manages in each of these texts to surprise the reader with the discovery that, in effect, there is a secret thread capable of linking everything: an underground pipeline that unites the intimate waters of our homes with a lake past and the grandiloquent future of a chimerical national project. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
No soy tan zen
Read moreTitle No soy tan zen Author Montelongo, José Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764914 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 224 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis I'm Not So Zen is an existential comedy whose protagonist is caught up in a struggle between words and things. A strident internal battle takes place in the mind of Julián González, a cultural journalist, as he tries to pay attention to a string quartet that seems endless. The protagonist wants silence but life is stubborn and noisy and intrudes, and there are tacos and seafood and corn gorditas with green sauce and a lot of work and a lot of hurry. In a world like the one we live in—inside and outside the novel—it is not fair to remain silent, although, sometimes, accessing silence is just what we need. To accompany us on this journey of self-knowledge, a motley catalogue of characters circulates through the narrative: a tenor with a remote serenade service, a woman who gets lost for years inside a library, a Dionysian and erudite veteran of cultural journalism, a husky dog with a contemplative temperament. With this entertaining novel, José Montelongo offers us a concise satire of the cultural environment and the fauna that inhabits it, while inviting us to pay attention to the music of everything that surrounds us. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Conferencia sobre la lluvia
Read moreTitle Conferencia sobre la lluvia Author Villoro, Juan Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764822 Edition number 2 Publication year 2022 Pages 64 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Lecture on the Rain deals with a theatrical situation par excellence: public speaking. A lecturer loses his notes and his nervousness leads him to say unexpected things. The topic of the talk is the relationship between rain and love poetry. In the vortex of improvisation, the protagonist talks about himself but does not abandon his original purpose; the poets who have changed the climate with their verses come to mind. Two forms of discourse are fascinatingly mixed: the lecture and the confession. Starring a librarian, this monologue written by Juan Villoro is a deep and often ironic reflection on the life of books and the emotions they arouse. A library is a collection of loves, rejections, suspicions and nostalgia, because of what its copies say, but also because of the way they have been read. Lecture on the Rain has a final surprise in store: the recipient of the talk. If a book depends on the reader, a lecture depends on the audience. The voice makes sense if someone hears it and, mysteriously, it also defines who hears it. To listen is to be interpreted. A lecturer speaks on stage. He has lost his papers and his words rush. Meanwhile, a stealthy presence listens to him with the bewilderment caused by the falling rain. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
El vértigo horizontal
Read moreTitle El vértigo horizontal Author Villoro, Juan Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078764761 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 456 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Convinced that Mexico City may not be the most advisable region to live in, but also that it is so intricate and exciting that it is impossible to leave it, Juan Villoro proposes this book written from the devotion of the recalcitrant and amazed urbanite that unfolds like an infinite puzzle: the shortcuts, the wrestling movies, the national heroes, the Tepiteño commerce, the government paperwork, the enigma of the tire repair shops, the countless crowds, the consumption of chili, the ancestral temples. The author also narrates certain autobiographical passages, such as the last walk with his grandmother or the memory of the neighborhood of abandoned houses where he grew up. With an attentive gaze and a firm pulse, Villoro unfolds as a journalist, passerby, pen buyer, nostalgic adult, responsible father, emergency brigade member, and offers us a testimony of the multiple adventures that the city has in store for each and every one of its members. Whether from his own experience or through listening to and investigating other people's realities, Juan Villoro composes a great fresco of the endearing and eternal chaos that makes up the country's capital. The space in which nothing fits anymore, but nothing is ever left over: Chilangópolis. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Mejor que ficción
Read moreTitle Mejor que ficción Author Carrion, Jorge Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851027 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 528 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis On the tenth anniversary of its original edition, Better than fiction: Exemplary chronicles returns to bookstores with a new prologue and new texts. It thus reinforces its status as a reference anthology of narrative journalism in our language, while it can be read as a trip around the world and as a catalogue of strategies and styles to tell the difficult reality of this turn of the century. The book contains chronicles by Juan Villoro, Leila Guerriero, Sabrina Duque, Jordi Costa, Alberto Fuguet, Alberto Salcedo Ramos, Eileen Truax, Juan Pablo Meneses, Juanita León, Cristian Alarcón, Marcela Turati, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Maye Primera, María Moreno, Julio Villanueva Chang, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Fabrizio Mejía Madrid, Cristina Rivera Garza, Jaime Bedoya, Rodrigo Fresán, Mónica Baró, Guillem Martínez, Gabriela Wiener, Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá and Martín Caparrós. It also includes an extensive dictionary of Ibero-American chroniclers, with hundreds of invitations to continue reading. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Punto de cruz
Read moreTitle Punto de cruz Author Barrera, Jazmina Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851089 Edition number 2 Publication year 2022 Pages 208 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The unexpected death of a friend triggers this novel-tapestry, where various times, stories, conversations and trips are interwoven. This is a story of growth, of the imbalances of identity and the adolescent body. Punto de cruz narrates the becoming of adults in a society crossed by sexist, classist, racist and environmental violence. For the protagonists of this book, friendship becomes the main tool of care, meaning, reparation and resistance. Friendship and embroidery, that activity in which women from hundreds of cultures and times found oppression, repression, freedom, community and art at the same time. This novel is also a travel chronicle or a chronicle about the effect of travel on one's own and collective identity; it is a beautiful portrait of the relationships between women, how we choose them, what affections continue to accompany us and what others choose paths that separate us forever. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Mundos alternos
Read moreTitle Mundos alternos Author Esquinca, Bernardo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851065 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 232 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Who hasn't wondered about the existence of other worlds and imagined how to discover them? Written in the first half of the twentieth century, the stories of Judith Merril, Zenna Henderson, Joanna Russ, Doris Pitkin Buck, Wilmar H. Shiras, C. L. Moore and Mildred Clingerman show possible ways to reach them. Whether through journeys that challenge the courage of their protagonists, the convergence of dimensions in everyday life at home, genetic mutations or hidden villages, these writers suggest that there are different universes that touch each other, that multiply the present but also the possibilities of the future. Alternate Worlds is the first volume of The Future is Woman!, an anthology edited by academic Lisa Yaszek that brings together stories by twenty-five American writers who found in science fiction a space of freedom to play with surprise and wonder, but also to experiment, dissent and confront social and political issues of their present. Over the course of four decades, these authors not only helped to build a literary genre from its foundations, but they also transformed it by developing complex characters, rethinking the relationship between men and women, humans and aliens, and asking how science and technology could reconfigure gender, sex, motherhood and survival, enabling new ways of living. Divided into three thematic volumes that bring together Yaszek's anthology, Almadía presents this collection for the first time in Spanish thanks to the translation by the Falsos Amigos collective. 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 9786078764990 Edition number 3 Publication year 2022 Pages 264 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The pre-Hispanic remains of Mexico City, once the scene of extreme rites of a faith that we still have trouble understanding, are turned into crime scenes by a fanatic who seeks to restore the greatness of the great Tenochtitlan. The enormous metropolis suddenly pulsates to the rhythm of an ancient song that awakens a past of oppression and resistance, of integration and disagreement; the bloody trace of the clash of two worlds. After spending days living as a homeless person to write an investigative piece, Casasola, a reporter for Semanario Sensacional, is driven to follow the trail of The Ritual Killer. Elisa Matos, an archaeologist, hostage to an impulsive and chaotic love life, becomes an indispensable ally during his investigations, but also the object of his desire. Banished gods who refuse to die, characters determined to understand an enigmatic and distant past, authorities who suspect everyone. This novel has already become a classic of Mexican crime fiction in which crime, horror and fantasy literature come together in a thriller full of emotion and suspense. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Pajarito
Read moreTitle Pajarito Author Ulloa Donoso, Claudia Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851157 Edition number 2 Publication year 2022 Pages 160 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Pajarito works like a collector's cabinet, a display of small artifacts treasured for the uniqueness of their details, gathered according to a very personal taxonomy. Coat racks that are immense men, words that fall like shavings in a sawmill, trees that with their strength provoke the fury of the wind, a sea contained in a plastic bottle, sheets stained with secrets; with these elements, stories are told starring men and women whose character does not fit with the cold schedules of productivity and the routes they find to escape from it. They are vivid snapshots of loneliness and foreignness through which both the latent fatality in our lives and the capacity of language to endow it with other meanings appear. The stories in this collection find their greatest power in the irruption of a poetic imaginary in the details of the most routine everyday life. In their brevity and precision, they propose continuous escapes towards the territories of the lyrical and unexpected. There is in this book an insistent invitation to look around us with different eyes, to seek and put into practice the subtle – and often cruel – sensitivity of Claudia Ulloa Donoso. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Necropolitana
Read moreTitle Necropolitana Author Esquinca, Bernardo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851096 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 208 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis A shadow walks through the streets of Mexico City's historic center. Through rites of dark magic, this presence invokes the energies that have been absorbed by the city's old facades throughout its history. Patient and furtive, this Necromancer plots revenge against the one who has condemned his name to oblivion. Thus, his plan seeks to put an end to a duel that dates back to the last days of the conquest and on whose outcome depends the permanence of the Mexican capital and all who inhabit it. After a long season lost in the past, Casasola manages to find a way to return to our present. In turn, thanks to powerful amulets and messages carved in the bronze of the statues, he is made aware of the destiny of chaos and destruction that has always loomed over what was the Great Tenochtitlan. With the help of a restoration architect whose legacy is limited to his father's old library, and allies lost in time, the hardened journalist will have to face forces he never suspected he would face. In the fifth installment of the acclaimed Casasola Saga, Bernardo Esquinca's personal obsession with Mexico City returns with greater intensity than ever, now in the form of multiple scenarios for its complete annihilation. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
Yo maté a un perro en Rumanía
Read moreTitle Yo maté a un perro en Rumanía Author Ulloa Donoso, Claudia Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078851102 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 368 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The protagonist of this story, a Latin American woman who teaches Norwegian to immigrants, is about to reach her limit; loneliness has brought her to the brink of complete abandonment of herself. Wanting to avoid the worst, her best friend decides to take her with him to his native Romania on a trip that she finds impossible to postpone. There, among concrete blocks and neon signs, they see the tenuous bond that united them as migrants in frozen Norway fade away. Refuge in alcohol and drugs, surrounded by a language she doesn't know in a country she doesn't understand, the young language teacher will look for a way to hold on to this world. In the midst of so much darkness, she finds a brittle bark. Claudia Ulloa Donoso's first novel is a bold exploration of death as an idea and intuition, but also an incredulous contemplation of its reverse: life and its stubborn insistence. Faithful to the literary quest he undertook in Pajarito, his acclaimed collection of stories, Ulloa Donoso has written a book that, between pleasure and fever, takes language to its limits to remind us that only through it are we able to confront that definitive threshold that is the end of existence. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx
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