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Cobalto 43
Read moreTitle Cobalto 43 Author Beatriz De León Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078805310 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 160 Format Printed THEMA Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction; Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary; Crime and mystery: women sleuths Synopsis The disappearance of a loved one can be a wound that does not heal. Sandra Dávalos, a reporter, goes to the house located on 43 Cobalto St. after learning that the skeleton of a child has been found. She suspects that it belongs to Mateo, his cousin, who disappeared a few decades ago. Sandra remembers the promise she made when she was a child: to find Mateo. She and Commander Rivas, the last bastions of honesty in their professions, will join forces to find the identity of the skeleton. Beatriz De León inquiries on the meaning of disappearing in Mexico and the practice of journalism. foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
El hijo del monitor
Read moreTitle El hijo del monitor Author Rowena Bali Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078805303 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 96 Format Printed THEMA Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic; Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary Synopsis This novel is a study about failure, obsession, useless lives that wallow in their uselessness. A pink story that becomes a sordid nightmare to show the absurdity and nonsense to which the media submits us: the dehumanization of those of us who adopt the monitors as mother and father, educating ourselves in the midst of garbage and media dirt, being manipulated through their messages to obey and to serve. foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
La ley Campoamor
Read moreTitle La ley Campoamor Author Ana Fuente Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078805280 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 112 Format Printed THEMA Short stories; Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary Synopsis “Each story offers two versions of the same dramatic situation where, through a structure of mirrors that allows the texts to reflect and respond to each other, a detailed portrait of life is elaborated. Stories that take us down the path of loss, of the various forms of violence that furrow and traverse life, of the small battles that we choose to fight and the mediocre victories that console us, but also of sweetness, compassion and the brief joys that make the world a less ungrateful place and that force us to see ourselves and understand why we want to look away”. By Elma Correa foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
Llama la sangre
Read moreTitle Llama la sangre Author Adán Medellín Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078805273 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 128 Format Printed THEMA Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction; Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary; Short stories Synopsis Stories with a literary approach to violence, loneliness, redemption, family conflicts, and mental disorders using tools from the narratives of noir and the supernatural, apocryphal biography, etc. Framed both in large cities and in small towns in Mexico, the main epigraph of the volume (Genesis 4:10) generates the title of the book following the exalted response of the Judeo-Christian God to Cain after the murder of Abel, a timeless cry for justice before the first fratricidal violence, an image that encompasses daily violent acts and their disastrous consequences in our country. foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
Demasiado tarde para ser otra cosa
Read moreTitle Demasiado tarde para ser otra cosa Author Cecilia Magaña Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078805266 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 176 Format Printed THEMA Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary Synopsis “Ginny Moon flees from the past and lives the present knowing that the future does not exist. This anti-heroine breaks into our literature in a fast-paced, unpredictable and fun narrative exercise; a tour de force where women take the reins of everything until the last consequences: revenge, love, death. The story of the unlikely bond that between two women with nothing to lose or to prove to themselves, a bond that blossoms like a lily in Lake Chapala, between sea monsters, pan dulce, and stupid, evil, or faint-hearted men (your choice, dear reader)”. By Elma Correa foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
¡Cucarachas!
Read moreTitle ¡Cucarachas! Author Víctor Santana Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078805259 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 240 Format Printed THEMA Science fiction: aliens / UFOs; Science fiction: near future; Satirical fiction and parodies Synopsis A novel to the rhythm of gay narco-corridos, with sicarios, a depressed drone, an aspiring assassin girl, the member of a cartel who directed the best porn movie of the pandemic, and many cockroaches from outer space. Palante, one of them in a human suit, arrives in Mazatlán with the purpose of defrauding a cartel with the help of a colony of alien cockroaches dedicated to counterfeiting dollars, under the orders of Serón, a despotic and cocaine-addicted cockroach god. Santana builds a multifocal and vertiginous novel that brings humor to narco-literature and parodies an immediate future. foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
Un acto de amor
Read moreTitle Un acto de amor Author Tania Tinajero Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078805242 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 144 Format Printed THEMA Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction; Crime and mystery: women sleuths; Feminism and feminist theory Synopsis «Una vuelta de tuerca» Prize, 2022. The unexpected disappearance of famous American model Lena Miles from a Mexican beach detonates the class, gender and justice polarizations in our country. The police use all their resources to find her, but is it valid to look for a famous woman, when we are missing so many anonymous ones? In addition, dozens of unsolved cases of missing women pile up. To solve them, agent Eréndira Sandoval questions her sentimental upbringing, lives the disadvantages of being a woman here, and overcomes those sexist patterns that affect her personal and profesional life. foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
Había un perro bajo la cama
Read moreTitle Había un perro bajo la cama Author Eduardo Cerdán Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078805235 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 112 Format Printed THEMA Short stories; Contemporary horror and ghost stories Synopsis Dogs and humans compete to be the fittest in these stories that explore desire, disenchantment, masculinity, and the limits of sanity. Life, here, becomes a great farce. Their characters come close to embarrassment, ridicule, and always find a new way to fail. Here are outcasts trying to clone their pet because losing it seems unbearable, dead people who don't know they are dead, impossible couples, ruined trips... Dogs are a constant: they are protagonists or accessories, painted in one piece but also fragmented in the traces they leave behind. foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
Escribir el crimen
Read moreTitle Escribir el crimen Author Roberto Coria Monter Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078805198 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 160 Format Printed THEMA Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction; CBVS - Screenwriting techniques; Crime and mystery: police procedural Synopsis This book has the mission of providing elements for anyone who wants to give a solid foundation to a narrative set in the worlds of crime. It is dedicated to writers, film and TV scriptwriters, journalists, and Criminal Law and Forensics students who wish to incorporate this knowledge into their work. I do not intend to limit the creative freedom of the author, nor to preach from a pulpit of scientific or legal correctness, but I fervently believe that if one is to delve into this or any topic rooted in reality, one has the obligation to do so convincingly. foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
Ámbar
Read moreTitle Ámbar Author Nicloás Ferraro Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078805181 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 224 Format Printed THEMA Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction; Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary Synopsis “This adrenaline-pumping novel subverts the purest noir genre, making Ámbar, a teenage girl, the executer of the revenge of the blood in her own way, turning completely around: from a possible victim of violence, to expert hand when it comes to taking over her own destiny. With Ámbar (Amber), winner of the 2022 Dashiell Hammett International Black Novel Award, Nicolás Ferraro has written a disturbing story about the affection between father and daughter, the horror of criminal life, and open wounds, both on the skin and on the conscience”. By Eduardo Antonio Parra foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
Morir de tiricia y carcelazo
Read moreTitle Morir de tiricia y carcelazo Author Sylvia Arvizu Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078805167 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 112 Format Printed THEMA Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction; Reportage, journalism or collected columns Synopsis Sylvia Arvizu spent 15 years in jail. She wrote two books about her experiences there and the cases of her inmates. Her life has offered her powerful anecdotes, but also put her amidst stories that she has learned to share with talent and sensibility through a wide range of narrative forms. Polishing and sharpening them has made her win an important literary price with one of her first books as well as with this one, where beside the stories of incarceration also appear those of her freedom on parole, which start just when the lockdown for the Covid pandemic was implemented in her city. foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
Descubrirme en Qatar
Read moreTitle Descubrirme en Qatar Author Carla Pascual Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078805150 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 192 Format Printed THEMA Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction; Autobiography: adventurers and explorers; East Asian religions; Travel writing Synopsis Carla Pascual is the first Latin American woman to offer a close look of the Muslim world. She dives into the deep Qatar to find the reason why their women cover their bodies and faces, why they cannot be photographed; the roots of polygamy, arranged marriages, gender segregation or certain prohibitions that we do not understand. She wonders and confronts herself: How is it that these women that we thought were oppressed get along better and with more self-assurance than anyone else. Between the travel chronicle and the fictionalized autobiography, in this novel we are «the others». foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
Picnic
Read moreTitle Picnic Author Lorena Ortiz Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078805143 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 128 Format Printed THEMA Contemporary lifestyle fiction; Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary; Novella (Short Novel) Synopsis The image of Patti Smith appears here as a symbol that defines what the three protagonist women (a Mexican, a Spaniard and a Uruguayan) have in common, starting with the physical resemblance to the music icon and the projection of the poet's rebellious and loving nature. The search of the characters in Picnic is not moved by a romantic vision, but by a desire to take from life what it owes to a girl: a little sex without falling in love, participating in a rock concert brawl getting out unscathed, or live as a functioning alcoholic without being judged. foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
La fábrica de mejicanitos
Read moreTitle La fábrica de mejicanitos Author Carlos Reyes Ávila Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078805136 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 144 Format Printed THEMA Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary; Comedic plays; Social and ethical issues Synopsis Cojones —who could easily be a great-grandson of Nietzsche’s who emerged by spontaneous generation in Mexico— comes up with the idea of shaking off his boredom with the theft of an ice-chest full of burritos, when its owner goes to the shop for a soda. Followed by his brother Conejo, they run through several streets unaware that they are already being chased by the lady's sons, helped by a minor narco boss, Kevin, and his henchmen commanded by Comal, beginning this story of entanglements, troubles and laughter. Everything serves Cojones to put the Mejicanitos Factory under the guillotine. foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
El don del Diablo
Read moreTitle El don del Diablo Author Omar Delgado Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078805129 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 272 Format Printed THEMA Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction Synopsis Abundio watches as he packs the customers' purchases. He seems like a nice old man, strong at his eighty years of age, and an expert in the arts of manipulation. Very few know that he spent thirty years in prison and that in his youth he stained his hands with the blood of students during the dirty war. He now plans one last hit at the supermarket where he works, which includes the other packers. A novel about evil as a human symptom, of the ways in which it survives through time, and the strength with which it empowers the weak and isolated, and the ways it has to spread and change its face. foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
Morir al sur
Read moreTitle Morir al sur Author Gabriel Velázquez Toledo Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078805105 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 144 Format Printed THEMA Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction; Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary; Crime and mystery: police procedural Synopsis «Una vuelta de tuerca» Prize, 2020. «Morir al Sur (To Die in the South) has the classic crime novel ingredients that readers love: complex and endearing characters, an uncompromising exploration of the corruption and breakdown of the social fabric, and relentless intrigue; but at the same time, it adds something unprecedented in the panorama of Mexican crime novels: the south as the propitious setting for the incubation of political intrigues and social uprisings, and an alternative, but no less suggestive, history of the emergence of the zapatista movement». Bernardo Esquinca foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
Amelia Palomino
Read moreTitle Amelia Palomino Author Ana María Maqueo Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078805051 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 160 Format Printed THEMA Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction; Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary; Crime and mystery: police procedural Synopsis Not a femme fatale, Amelia Palomino is neither a passive victim. A widow, still young and beautiful, she manages a large family inheritance, until she dies during a robbery. With this new investigation, Ana María Maqueo insisted on her criticism of the national institutions and their customs, among them the subjugation of women, and the use of beauty as a currency and as a tool for getting power. And portrayed a Mexico devastated by the 1985 earthquake, economic crises, smuggling, and early drug trafficking. Captain Alatorre reconsiders here his idea of justice in a dazzling finale. foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
Bavispe
Read moreTitle Bavispe Author Carlos René Padilla Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078805044 Edition number 1 Publication year 2022 Pages 112 Format Printed THEMA Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction; Adventure fiction: Westerns; Contemporary horror and ghost stories Synopsis Winner of the national «Fuentes Mares» Prize, 2022. The same as Comala, Bavispe is a small town crushed by the heat and an apparent monotony which stories are transformed by Carlos René Padilla into unforgettable narratives inhabited by ghosts and living beings willing to take away our calm while reading. Padilla makes use of a language that is often poetic and at the same time rooted in orality to narrate a variety of rural dramas that go from the presence of ghosts in the streets to the violence of revenge, that seem to update the narrative of Juan Rulfo. foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
Isla en negro
Read moreTitle Isla en negro Author Rafael Grillo; Leopoldo Luis García; Rodolfo Pérez Valero; Lorenzo Lunar; Yamilet García Zamora; Rebeca Murga; Reinaldo Cañizares; Emerio Medina; Jorge Enrique Lage; Ahmel Echeverría; Marcial Gala; Eduardo del Llano; Leonardo Gala; Yonnier Torres; Carlos Manuel Álvarez; María Matienzo Puerto; Luis Alfredo Vaillant Rebollar; Daniel Díaz Mantilla; Ariel Sánchez; Lázaro Alfonso Díaz Cala; Frank David Frías; Alejandro Cernuda Reyes; Orlando Andrade; Ernesto Pérez Castillo; Michel Encinosa Fú; Reinaldo Cañizares Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078256990 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 272 Format Printed THEMA Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction; Anthologies: general; Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary Synopsis Set of short stories compiled under the heading "Stories of crime and enigma" written by contemporary Cuban authors who approach crime narrative and its most modern currents from a multiplicity of formal and plot variants. It contains stories by well-known figures of the genre (Rodolfo Pérez Valero, Lorenzo Lunar), more recent ones (Yamilet García Zamora, Rebeca Murga, Reinaldo Cañizares), together with creators recognized for their work in other literary genres such as Emerio Medina, Jorge Enrique Lage, Ahmel Echeverría, Marcial Gala, Eduardo del Llano and Leonardo Gala. foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
Isla en rojo
Read moreTitle Isla en rojo Author Rafael Grillo; Juan Pablo Noroña; Ernesto Pérez Chang; Raúl Flores Iriarte; Lorenzo Lunar; Zulema de la Rúa Fernández; Víctor Hugo Pérez Gallo; Marcial Gala; Yoss; Mariam Diéguez Sánchez; Denis Álvarez Betancourt; Lázaro Alfonso Días Cala; Marlen López Mora; Yonnier Torres; Iris Rosales; Jorge Enrique Lage; Vladimir Hernández Pacín; Carlos César Muñoz García del Pino; David Alforso Hermelo; Elaine Vilar Madruga; Miguel Terry Valdespino Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078256983 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 240 Format Printed THEMA Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary; Anthologies: general; Contemporary horror and ghost stories Synopsis Never before have the nights of Havana looked as dangerous as in these short stories written in third millennium Cuba. Selected by writer Raphael Grillo, they bring together renowned authors (Lorenzo Lunar, Yoss, Marcial Gala, Jorge E. Lage, Raúl Flores, Miguel Terry Valdespino, among others) in a spectrum of genres ranging from pure terror to humor, or from science fiction to local color. This volume is part of a trilogy that aims to explore the Cuban literary production of recent years influenced by popular genres and give the reader a pleasant and attractive book. foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
Te amaba y me chingaste
Read moreTitle Te amaba y me chingaste Author Nora de la Cruz Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078256976 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 144 Format Printed THEMA Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary; Adventure / action fiction; Satirical fiction and parodies Synopsis At one of the many parties of the false society, Fosca María and Tito Lucio fall in love by accident. She is a music governess, who owns only a cat named Cucurucho and an attic; the other is a drunken marimba player, member of the illustrious Cucufato family. This 19th-century soap-opera takes place between the street gastronomy of Mexico and the customs of the old Russian aristocracy, something Chekhov could have written if he had liked tacos. Fosca and Tito remind us that no matter how much attention we have paid to Ovidio's advice, we have all loved and, yes, we have been screwed at times. foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
El mismo silencio
Read moreTitle El mismo silencio Author Adolfo Calderón Sabido Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078256969 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 112 Format Printed THEMA Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary; Historical fiction Synopsis In 1915, the Sinaloan general Salvador Alvarado entered Yucatán as governor. He cut privileges to the church and the landowners, promoted the feminist movement, fought against the slavery regime and canceled the company stores. Above all, he promulgated laws that preceded the national ones in the 1917 Constitution. Fragmentary and polyphonic, this novel gives voice to different protagonists to revive racism, slavery, and other entitlements enjoyed by the «casta divina». It offers not only a new light to the past, but a clearer mirror for the present. foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
Banana Street
Read moreTitle Banana Street Author Macaria España Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078256884 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 80 Format Printed THEMA Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction; Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary Synopsis Isabel Tierra Frias. Heroine or vigilante? Or simply an assassin? After her family suffered the impunity of the slums and she herself went through the humiliations that thousands of women experience in our country. And after fleeing in search of refuge only to find more of the same, Isabel is presented with the opportunity dreamed of by every victim: to deliver the justice that never took place. Only she'll have to do it herself. Is it justice or revenge? She does not care. In fact, she becomes known as La Venganza by the authorities, her victims and her admirers. foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
Dar las gracias no es suficiente
Read moreTitle Dar las gracias no es suficiente Author Carlos Bortoni Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078256792 Edition number 1 Publication year 2019 Pages 144 Format Printed THEMA Humorous fiction; Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary; Crime and mystery: women sleuths Synopsis Located in those years when the unemployed elderly joined the teenagers to pack the customers purchases in supermarkets, this novel shows the strategies that Mr. González, a septuagenarian with rheumatic hands, stubborn and stark, learns with a mixture of impotence and contempt, applying them and telling us their consequences with a hidden rage and an explosive ending. His motto is: «At a certain age... one can only cause pity... and pity is just another product of exchange. Fortunately, they have not patented it. It will have to be exploited before someone claims it as their own». foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com -
Las celdas rosas
Read moreTitle Las celdas rosas Author Sylvia Arvizu Publisher Editorial NitroPress Imprint Nitro/Press ISBN 9786078256679 Edition number 1 Publication year 2018 Pages 112 Format Printed THEMA Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction; Reportage, journalism or collected columns Synopsis There are two easy ways to deal with the life of women in prison in our country and the reasons that put them there: one is to ignore it and the other is to turn it into a valley of tears. The merit of Sylvia Arvizu has been to find a third option. The most ethical and aesthetic possible. That of reinstating their human character. foreign rights contact Lilia Barajas Martínez E-mail editorial.nitropress@gmail.com
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