Alienígena

  Femimutancia   Hotel de las ideas Argentina   Graphic Novel In an urban corner, the protagonist wanders in brief and intense sexual encounters.  They draw what they think and whatever happens in the street. A strange noise sounds in their room, at night. What’s that discomfort? What’s the missing piece that solves the riddle Read more about Alienígena[…]

Retamo

Eduardo Plaza Libros de mentira Chile   Novel “The writing of Retamo by the narrator Eduardo Plaza adopts fragmentation as a central element that differs, displaces, segments writing to generate an intense poetics based on melancholy and a deep thirst that never ceases. It is this thirst that rises like a liquid footprint to emphasize Read more about Retamo[…]

Rebeliones y revelaciones

  Giaconda Bello Pereira Txalaparta Nicaragua   Novel “The woman who rebels, reveals herself” proclaimed José Coronel Urtecho about Gioconda Belli in her first poems. In this new work, between autobiography, essay and anthology, Belli says that he was right and reveals herself to us as the woman who fought all oppressions: she joined the Read more about Rebeliones y revelaciones[…]

El ejército de los tiburones martillo

Fabián Patinho El Fakir Ecuador   Graphic novel In the spirit of metafiction, this novel places Ecuadorian historic convention under suspicion, in particular Ecuadorian Art History, and substitutes that dominant form of expression with detective fiction. Seen from the author’s perspective, Ecuadorian Art History begins with an unresolved crime: the disappearance of an enormous mural Read more about El ejército de los tiburones martillo[…]

La Sal

  Adrina Riva Odelia editora Argentina   Novel “The silence stretches. This is how far we get. Mom’s that bit of unreachable skin between my shoulder blades, that bit that itches and I can’t scratch”. Following a childhood accident, Ema digs deep into her bond with her mother and, pregnant with her second child, sets Read more about La Sal[…]