Category: ALMADIA
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Cameron
Read moreTitle Cameron Author Ronsino, Hernán Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667017 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 113 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis Cameron, an elderly man with an artificial leg, has good reasons for not crossing certain precise boundaries of the city in which he lives. He spends his days contemplating the landscape, mountains, snow, a changing sky, and goes out for walks at night, sometimes to the pier, sometimes to the Jazz Club, sometimes to wander. One night, after a strange party and an early morning of which he remembers nothing, Cameron must take refuge in his neighbor Orsini's house, because the police are looking for him, although he does not know the reason. While he wonders what happened during the lost hours, the protagonist establishes a new relationship with his body and with the strange man who helps him. In this novel by Hernán Ronsino we find once again the Argentine region that the author has focused on mapping, one in which the past and the present are in permanent conflict, the stage in which individual identity and collective memory are played out. His narrative materials, volatile and enigmatic, sustain a tension that leads us through labyrinths of memory and perception toward the core of a mystery that reaches us to this day. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
El animal sobre la piedra
Read moreTitle El animal sobre la piedra Author Tarazona, Daniela Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667215 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 184 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The Animal on the Stone or The Fable of the Egg are the same novel. I had those titles and decided that the first one was more enigmatic and perhaps lyrical, because the second one could be related to some episode in the kitchen, at breakfast time. The book can be read in one sitting, I have been told. So the reader gets up more or less early, has breakfast and then reads it, he will be free by midday and can take advantage of the rest of Saturday or Sunday. It is possible that he will get hungry in the meantime and even want to eat red meat because the protagonist goes to the supermarket and buys meat. It is also possible that he will have a desire to eat insects. None of that matters, either way. If the reader wants to escape, he can do so, that is his right. The first line will warn him of what he can find later: “My house was the territory of an extraordinary event.” Daniela Tarazona foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
El rastro
Read moreTitle El rastro Author Glantz, Margo Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667208 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 184 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The Trace is a text that talks about a burial, and the feelings of the protagonist when she contemplates the body of a man with whom she lived for a long time, whom she has stopped seeing and whom she sees again, now bloodless, and the memory of that body when it was alive and shared a very intense love relationship with the person who looks at it. But, by doing so, that is, by reviving it in writing, the decay of the body is cancelled. Writing allows us to give life to things again. Of course, writing is, on a certain level, a dead body by the very fact that it is something that is written and the book is an object, but by having the possibility of writing, of recreating something, life is recovered. This is the most beautiful thing about writing, the possibility of resurrecting that which disappears. Margo Glantz. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
El tren
Read moreTitle El tren Author López García, Nadia Publisher Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. Imprint Almadia ISBN 9786078667246 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 48 Format Printed THEMA Fiction and Related items Synopsis The train has stopped in a dormant and still time, it is time, it is the time of memory, of waiting. My mother says that soon we will return to this land where my navel was buried, where the morning cicada sings and the flowers never die. foreign rights contact Elizabet Osorio Osorio E-mail eosorio@corporativoventura.mx -
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
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