Solo somos sombras
| Title | Solo somos sombras |
|---|---|
| Author | José, Pergentino |
| Publisher | Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. |
| Imprint | Almadia |
| ISBN | 9786078851300 |
| Edition number | 1 |
| Publication year | 2023 |
| Pages | 120 |
| Format | Printed |
| THEMA | Fiction and Related items |
| Synopsis | In the midst of a smallpox outbreak that threatens to decimate the population of a Zapotec community, Lisnit and Néstor must fight to make their professed love for each other possible. Victims of state violence, the lovers deal with the traumas of the anger inflicted on their bodies and their memory. After Hormigas rojas, his celebrated collection of short stories, Pergentino José has written a first novel in which Spanish, inoculated from one language to another – Zapotec – acquires a unique vitality and rhythm. Built from ellipses and fragments, Solo somos sombras is a book about the opacity of memory, the veils that time runs over it and the fate of evanescence to which it condemns us. With a stylistic strategy as risky as it is precise, José offers us the contours of an intense plot; the shadow in which, thanks to its density and lyricism, we are able to recognize urgent issues for our societies: the colonial past, the displacement of entire communities for the extraction of natural resources, the annihilation of non-capitalist cosmogonies and the trauma of dispossession and misery that these processes entail. |
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| eosorio@corporativoventura.mx |
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