Category: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
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Las vigilantes
Read moreTitle Las vigilantes Author Elvira Liceaga Publisher Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Imprint Lumen ISBN 9786073826662 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 280 Format Printed THEMA Narrative theme: Social issues Synopsis After spending a few years abroad, Julia returns to Mexico. She settles in her mother's house, Catalina, chasing the traces of her past as a way of finding herself again. Upon her return she meets with Silvia, a young pregnant woman who lives in a foster home waiting for the moment she has to give birth and hand her son to other parents. The three women mirror each other in a way that places the reader in front of some of the great questions that assail us all, such as our relationship with that origin that is signified in the mother figure, and caring for others, from time to time somewhat in a vigilant way. Subtle and clever, Liceaga's prose asks who we are in the rupture of everyday life... and searches deeply to caress our wounds. The critics say: "Anchored in the bond of sisterhood, this book suggests that a woman's journey to writing involves a return to herself. It is a solitary return no more, but a luminous fury reaching a moment of highest purity in the collective harangue. This is what Julia, who has undertaken many trips to get closer to writing, discovers and she finds out that the most important question is lodged in the body other woman, in the silence she comes from and the silence she is headed to." Andrea Cote "A stranger in her own house, the narrator wants to bring order into chaos with her writing but present, past and future farewells bring her back to orality and margins, where she meets other women going through different processes and duels. The guardians of this beautiful novel live in me, because there are no heroines or epics, but hope in small gestures. 'Here are survivors and embroidered complicity'." Alejandra Moffat foreign rights contact Oswaldo Muñoz, Quetzalli de la Concha E-mail oswaldo.munoz@penguinrandomhouse.com; quetzalli.delaconcha@penguinrandomhouse.com -
La alegría del padre
Read moreTitle La alegría del padre Author Didí Gutiérrez Publisher Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Imprint Alfaguara ISBN 9786073833851 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 224 Format Printed THEMA Classic fiction: general and literary Synopsis Abigail has just turned 18 when she finds out that she could lose her father. From that moment on, this furious, carefree and lively teenager will get to us with her childhood memories, her intense, ever-changing emotions, her desire to belong and understand a world that both fascinates and intimidates her, and which she does not always comprehends how to face. Meanwhile, the relationship with his father is woven between sutures, sometimes trembling, but with the certainty of love as a backdrop. The Joy of the Father is a beautiful novel that portraits the interaction between a daughter and man whom she sometimes doesn't know, with whom she sometimes laugh, the one who she very occasionally gets upset with. A deep love articulated in the voice of a girl whose only option will be to grow up. «Living and dying are the two great mandates of life, but joy is not. Perhaps even rarer is a man who finds joy in fathering his only daughter. But when Abigail Ángeles, the main character of this beautiful novel, expresses how grateful she is to the tree that raised her, the joy of the father becomes ours to experience.» foreign rights contact Oswaldo Muñoz, Quetzalli de la Concha E-mail oswaldo.munoz@penguinrandomhouse.com; quetzalli.delaconcha@penguinrandomhouse.com -
Todo lo que amamos y dejamos atrás
Read moreTitle Todo lo que amamos y dejamos atrás Author Elisa de Gortari Publisher Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Imprint Alfaguara ISBN 9786073851152 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 296 Format Printed THEMA Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales Synopsis Grijalva is a reporter in a world that has gone backwards. In the middle of the 21st century, the Earth has acquired similar rings to those of Saturn after a cataclysm that extinguished electric light and melted the soul of transistors and circuits of all the devices on which humanity relied. Accompanied by her stepson, Grijalva travels to Tamarindo, a town in Veracruz where children suffer from a rare disease: they speak and behave like they are someone different from who they were, possessed by distant and painful stories. The need for an explanation is urgent. There are signs that delirium can be contagious—and disturbing to authorities. As the investigation moves forward, the story reveals what happened to the planet twenty years before, when young Grijalva was in love with her music teacher, and her father, a digital emanation in a meticulous virtual world. What we love and leave behind is much more than an amazing science fiction novel. With intimate and precise language, Elisa de Gortari has written one possible shipwreck, but most importantly, a secret love letter to all the things that give meaning to us: from music and poetry, to the brilliance of the first times and the various, sometimes arduous, ways of taking care of and loving ourselves. foreign rights contact Oswaldo Muñoz, Quetzalli de la Concha E-mail oswaldo.munoz@penguinrandomhouse.com; quetzalli.delaconcha@penguinrandomhouse.com -
Esta cuerpa mía
Read moreTitle Esta cuerpa mía Author Uri Bleier Publisher Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Imprint Alfaguara ISBN 9786073848954 Edition number 1 Publication year 2024 Pages 296 Format Printed THEMA Contemporary lifestyle fiction Synopsis Description With the name Leonardo on her back and an androgynous aesthetic, the main character comes to Tijuana, scammed by a group of traffickers. Baptized as Monica and sheltered by Rosy, a kind of adoptive mother, she feels fulfilled and learns the tricks of her new world: a place full of betrayals, happiness, euphoria and addictions. A couple of years later, Mónica will go from the security of hotels and inns to the hostility of the streets and the Jungle, the most sordid and unknown place in Tijuana. With her dry body and her mother's voice in mind, she manages to lick her wounds and return home. Her way back will be a viacrucis, the arrival, a blessing. All this, the true beginning. This body of mine is an honest and scatterbraines novel, full of humor and music, love and sisterhood, that still leaves space for pain and hatred. It is full of drugs, danger and hypocrisy; of oil injections, sequins and high heels; of sex on street corners, hotels and virtual spaces. Uri Bleier writes a novel that smells like the streets, tastes like the beach and sounds like cumbia; a story that his character gallops with all her fierceness and tenderness. «Uri Bleier investigates, listens, spoons and gathers each voice, each character, each scene. Pure sweet and bitter poison." -Sabina Urraca foreign rights contact Oswaldo Muñoz, Quetzalli de la Concha E-mail oswaldo.munoz@penguinrandomhouse.com; quetzalli.delaconcha@penguinrandomhouse.com -
No mataras
Read moreTitle No mataras Author Ana Sofía González Publisher Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Imprint Alfaguara ISBN 9786073837989 Edition number 1 Publication year 2023 Pages 272 Format Printed THEMA Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales Synopsis Alejandra, a frivolous teenager, lives in an upper-class residency. Her life is molded by her mother's abandonment and his strict father's harshness. She is very close to Vicky, her nanny, who she considers another member of her family and who suffers from epilepsy, what makes her live almost in confinement. Their live take an unexpected turn when Juan Pablo, the man who washes their cars, tries to rape Vicky. How do decisions affect us once we have made them? What are the consequences when there is no turning back? Thou Shalt Not Kill is a heartbreaking story that wretches your guts and shakes your soul. «Ana Sofía González's novel explores like few others the guilt, the madness, the devastation caused by a crime that, even in self-defense, drags the main characters to the darkest of abysses. A deep reflection on the emotional consequences of our actions. » -Guillermo Arriaga foreign rights contact Oswaldo Muñoz, Quetzalli de la Concha E-mail oswaldo.munoz@penguinrandomhouse.com; quetzalli.delaconcha@penguinrandomhouse.com -
ÚLTIMA CASA DE LA MONTAÑA, LA
Read moreTitle ÚLTIMA CASA DE LA MONTAÑA, LA Author M. SOTELO, XAVIER Publisher Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Imprint Montena ISBN 9786073170109 Edition number 1 Publication year 2018 Pages 248 Format Printed THEMA Children’s / Teenage fiction: Horror and ghost stories, chillers Synopsis A terrible accident forever changes the lives of little Max and Poncho, as well as that of officer Esteban Rey. For the children, losing their parents may not be the greatest misfortune they will face, since they will be forced to live with a relative they have never met: Aunt Carmen, whose ideas and convictions are more horrendous than the ghosts in the house they will inhabit. Meanwhile, Esteban Rey is too tormented and blinded by his own loss, and will ignore the warnings he receives. He will not stop investigating until he finds out the true causes of the accident, and he will become the children's best ally in their attempt to survive the nightmare of the last house on the mountain. foreign rights contact Oswaldo Muñoz, Quetzalli de la Concha E-mail oswaldo.munoz@penguinrandomhouse.com; quetzalli.delaconcha@penguinrandomhouse.com -
REY LOBO
Read moreTitle REY LOBO Author M. SOTELO, XAVIER Publisher Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Imprint Montena ISBN 9786073196338 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 328 Format Printed THEMA Children’s / Teenage fiction: Horror and ghost stories, chillers Synopsis Surviving the massacre of that cursed night in El Real, Jalisco, in which they were attacked by werewolves, is nothing compared to the hell Diego has experienced since. The memory of his loved ones who did not survive the attack is a torment that fuels his desire for revenge. He does not forgive himself for his best friend turning into an insatiable werewolf, a merciless murderer that comes out every full moon and leaves chilling clues in his wake. As much as his friends want to help him out of the abyss he finds himself in, Diego is even willing to sacrifice himself, in a desperate attempt to stop this beast that knows exactly how to get to him and do the most damage. The chase will take them to unexpected places, both in their own minds and in the world. Danger is lurking, because that beast is obsessed with becoming the Wolf King. foreign rights contact Oswaldo Muñoz, Quetzalli de la Concha E-mail oswaldo.munoz@penguinrandomhouse.com; quetzalli.delaconcha@penguinrandomhouse.com -
LOBOS
Read moreTitle LOBOS Author M. SOTELO, XAVIER Publisher Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Imprint Debolsillo ISBN 9786073806220 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 288 Format Printed THEMA Children’s / Teenage fiction: Horror and ghost stories, chillers Synopsis Diego is ready to take his relationship with Paola to the next step: he will propose to her while they camp in a beautiful forest with their best friends by their side What starts as the perfect evening will soon turn into a nightmare. Without even knowing it, the grouo has entered a town in which the majority of its inhabitants are not what they seem, and the full moon light will bring out their true personality. Only the strongest will be able to survive this night of terror in which the deadliest attack will come from where they least expect it. foreign rights contact Oswaldo Muñoz, Quetzalli de la Concha E-mail oswaldo.munoz@penguinrandomhouse.com; quetzalli.delaconcha@penguinrandomhouse.com -
MUNDO UMBRIO 4. LA GUERRA
Read moreTitle MUNDO UMBRIO 4. LA GUERRA Author SANDOVAL, JAIME ALFONSO Publisher Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Imprint Montena ISBN 9786073813075 Edition number 1 Publication year – Pages – Format Printed THEMA Children’s / Teenage fiction: True stories told as fiction Synopsis The war has broken out, the civilization hidden under the human world is amid a fierce battle. Warriors, dark wizards, monsters from the underworld, revived corpses, all enter the battle. Lina must prepare herself to fight, while investigating where Gismundus was and trying to evade a chilling prophecy that points towards her. New characters, black humor, terror, adventures, unexpected deaths, secret missions and the hope of love. Shadow World reaches its epic finale in its extended and definitive version. ARE YOU MISSING OUT? foreign rights contact Oswaldo Muñoz, Quetzalli de la Concha E-mail oswaldo.munoz@penguinrandomhouse.com; quetzalli.delaconcha@penguinrandomhouse.com -
MUNDO UMBRIO 3. LA VENGANZA
Read moreTitle MUNDO UMBRIO 3. LA VENGANZA Author SANDOVAL, JAIME ALFONSO Publisher Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Imprint Montena ISBN 9786073198516 Edition number 1 Publication year 2021 Pages 560 Format Printed THEMA Children’s / Teenage fiction: True stories told as fiction Synopsis Lina wishes she was a normal teenager, unfortunately that is not possible. This adventure continues more exciting and terrifying than ever. Do you dare to come back? We are waiting for you. In Shadow World the war of wars has broken out (and Lina is somewhat to blame for that). Furthermore, the Chosen One is after her, she lost the great love of her life, and her clan is in danger. But she still has a chance to save them and be forgiven for her mistakes. Intrigues, revenge, new and sinister worlds are revealed in the war between underground civilizations. foreign rights contact Oswaldo Muñoz, Quetzalli de la Concha E-mail oswaldo.munoz@penguinrandomhouse.com; quetzalli.delaconcha@penguinrandomhouse.com -
MUNDO UMBRIO 2: LA TRAICION
Read moreTitle MUNDO UMBRIO 2: LA TRAICION Author SANDOVAL, JAIME ALFONSO Publisher Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Imprint Montena ISBN 9786073189378 Edition number 1 Publication year 2020 Pages 624 Format Printed THEMA Children’s / Teenage fiction: True stories told as fiction Synopsis Lina has discovered a terrifying secret: there is a hidden civilization beneath the human world. These creatures call themselves Shadows and they are powerful, lethal... and ther own family. She has moved in with them. There, the young woman is appreciated for her exquisite "gargoyle beauty", she possesses the most powerful weapon in the underworld and she has a boyfriend!: the handsome Gismundus. But no one should leave her guard down. Danger lurks: the threat of a war of wars. Lina will try to stop it. Little does he know that she is about to enter a labyrinth of prophecies, necromancy, black magic and teenage jealousy. A betrayal that will change her destiny in a tragic way is in sight. foreign rights contact Oswaldo Muñoz, Quetzalli de la Concha E-mail oswaldo.munoz@penguinrandomhouse.com; quetzalli.delaconcha@penguinrandomhouse.com -
MEXICOLAND
Read moreTitle MEXICOLAND Author SANDOVAL, JAIME ALFONSO Publisher Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Imprint Montena ISBN 9786073162517 Edition number 1 Publication year 2018 Pages 424 Format Printed THEMA Children’s / Teenage fiction: True stories told as fiction Synopsis Mexicoland is perfect. History, music and food, the best of Mexico in one place. The only inconvenient is that nothing is real. This amusement park in the future, the rest of the country has collapsed from violence and anarchy. A small territory prevails where Neomexico is founded, a society in which any crime is punished with extreme cruelty. This is the place where Cuauhtémoc Rojo is left without parents, school and home in a single day. He will soon discover that he needs to find answers if he wants to survive. Who are those strange old men watching over him? What is the truth about his parents' accident? What is hidden behind the huge walls surrounding the cities? A Mexican dystopia penned with the humor and acidity of Jaime Alfonso Sandoval foreign rights contact Oswaldo Muñoz, Quetzalli de la Concha E-mail oswaldo.munoz@penguinrandomhouse.com; quetzalli.delaconcha@penguinrandomhouse.com
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