Los niños de paja
| Title | 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 |
| eosorio@corporativoventura.mx |
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