Un dios con el estómago vacío
| Title | Un dios con el estómago vacío |
|---|---|
| Author | Candeira, Matías |
| Publisher | Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. |
| Imprint | Almadia |
| ISBN | 9786078851850 |
| Edition number | 1 |
| Publication year | 2024 |
| Pages | 184 |
| Format | Printed |
| THEMA | Fiction and Related items |
| Synopsis | In these stories, life is torn apart and leaves a trail of blood with drops of black comedy in the hallway. The patriarchs go to the beach with their children and ignore the apocalypse that is approaching on the horizon. The gods have awakened, they are hungry for human beings. Couples look every day at a hole in the wall of their house and wonder how long this happiness that never seems to run out will last. A young man mutates into a swarm of flies when he is fired and a couple argues with their son while burying him in the garden. Death lurks everywhere: in the form of a crack, a hole, a jaw that opens between the sea and the sky, embodied in a hitman who is waiting, or boarding a bus after a bad day tired of dealing with its responsibilities. At any moment it strikes. The protagonists of these stories are rabbits paralyzed in front of the headlights of a car that illuminates the absurd. Aware of the density of time and how short the fuse is, they see everything that slips through their fingers fall to pieces: love, happiness, home, identity, the plot. Matías Candeira spins poetry and tragedy very finely to display the acidic humor of the wound. Playing with language until the ridiculous and the sublime go hand in hand, he turns reality into a fracture; he challenges it with a distortion. Here, no one can be trusted anymore, much less the narrative voices that observe their characters under a microscope – and us along with them – with the cruelest and fiercest gaze while everything is about to blow up. |
| foreign rights contact | Elizabet Osorio Osorio |
| eosorio@corporativoventura.mx |
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