Category: ALMADIA
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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
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