women's prison
María Carolina Greel · Peripheral · 2023
We are faced with an exceptional text: the first-person testimony of María Carolina Greel's time in prison after having murdered her lover with two shots in Chile 1955. Women's Prison is a short, autobiographical novel that narrates in a poetic and almost philosophical way the life in prison of Chilean women of the time.. A practically contemporary portrait that captivates from the first sentence: “Murmur of voices, prolonged, dense and deaf in its undulating continuity, that only ends with the end of the day”. Maybe it's not the most Christmassy gift., but a delight either way. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)
No binary
Genesis P-Orridge · Black Box · 2023
Caja Negra brings us the literary testament of music Genesis P-Orridge, some fluid memories, fragmentary and mutating; nonbinary, where the subject and the object, figure and background merge and intertwine. and where, besides, A revolutionary era is portrayed that weaves countercultural experiences and pioneering aesthetics into its narrative.. SAINTS LEMOINE (The Bathysphere)
dead city
Shane Stevens · Sakhalin editors · 2023
Originally published in 1973, and unpublished until now in Spanish, dead city It's a terrifying trip through the mean streets of New Jersey. Sakhalin editors recover this work by Shane Stevens that left a deep mark on authors like Stephen King, Chris Offutt y John Connolly. JAIME ORTEGA (Per-r-ucho)
milk teeth
Helene Bukowski · Editorial Map · 2023
The third title from the recent Mapa publishing house, milk teeth, is a sober climatic dystopia that exposes the human condition taken to the limit. Skalde and Edith live in a community that survives increasingly extreme weather conditions. The appearance of a girl in a territory that they believed protected from any external incursion will confront its members and endanger its stability.. ESTELA SANCHIS (Bangarang)
The force
Xaime Martinez · Malastierras · 2023
Martin Feito is the neurotic protagonist of this novel that takes place in a practically unpopulated village in a valley dominated by a thermal power plant that invades everything with its chimney., its smoke and its constant noise. Martin Feito arrives there with a scholarship for literary creation and finds himself involved in a kind of history of cowboys when he meets the last resisters of a group of guerrillas who do not want to surrender to the Asturian empire. He secretly admires them, even if he is unable to take sides in the conflicts that surround him. It is cross of Asturian western With mythological overtones that travels between the margins of the law and the margins of the territory, it portrays a character in constant process and need for learning. (even if I never learn anything) who thinks that reason—or his epiphanies—can fix everything. LIGHTS ROMERO
Do not enter with flames
Lidia Caro Leal hightide · 2023
Do not enter with flames They are small dismembered stories about the sweet shipwrecks of everyday life. Micro-stories crossed by taxi customs, bar and service station that rejects idealization and winks at the Valencian with references to the Santa Pola salt flats, the rice fields of Albufera, blood with onion, the sweet, el FIB, a rusty karting from Oropesa del Mar or the channel of the Túria. What Valencian does not appeal to the image of a farmer with straw hat (from a rural box) suspiciously looking at a cyclist wrapped in lycra hanging around his Albufera? At times metaphorical and sensory, appearing from time to time in first person, Lidia Caro tells us stories that you can gulp down in which she portrays insurance companies, the applications that traffic with our data, the new love relationships between profiles, the perversity of Artificial Intelligence, a precarious but licensed country or a whored worker, pure bulk for large companies. There are bar terrace conversations without depth, kindness, respect or feminism, a promising young woman who takes justice into his own hands to avenge the violence of men, or the perfect story with an evocative ending (Mosquitoes in the eyes) about two brothers who grow up and grow apart in the Albufera. All this between combustions, ashes, fuego, butts, flames and fires. S.M.
