Category: ALMADIA
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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
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