Todo lo que amamos y dejamos atrás
| Title | 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 |
| oswaldo.munoz@penguinrandomhouse.com; quetzalli.delaconcha@penguinrandomhouse.com |
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