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Häftad, Engelska, 2022
162 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE TA FIRST TRANSLATION PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE PREMIO VALLE INCLAN SECRETS AND REVENGE CONVERGE IN THIS CHILLING TALE FROM A BREAKOUT NEW LATIN AMERICAN VOICE'A deliciously menacing read which I just couldn't put down.' Jan Carson, author of The RapturesMany years have passed since Lucas was expelled from his childhood home by Felisberto and Eloy, the two strangers who arrived uninvited and slowly, insidiously, made it their own. Now Lucas is back, fully grown and intent on claiming his rightful inheritance.But he is not interested in the house as it once was, nor in his mother's lovingly planted flowerbeds - now conquered by weeds - nor in the lavish portraits covering every wall. Lucas belongs to a darker world, one crawling with the only creatures he really trusts: insects. As the house crumbles before his eyes, Lucas turns to the allies of his underground kingdom to help him take revenge. Weaving together past and present like a spider's web, This World Does Not Belong to Us is a spine-tingling story of human greed, from a masterful new literary voice.
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Engelska, 2022102 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE TA FIRST TRANSLATION PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE PREMIO VALLE INCLAN SECRETS AND REVENGE CONVERGE IN THIS CHILLING TALE FROM A BREAKOUT NEW LATIN AMERICAN VOICE'A deliciously menacing read which I just couldn't put down.' Jan Carson, author of The RapturesMany years have passed since Lucas was expelled from his childhood home by Felisberto and Eloy, the two strangers who arrived uninvited and slowly, insidiously, made it their own. Now Lucas is back, fully grown and intent on claiming his rightful inheritance.But he is not interested in the house as it once was, nor in his mother's lovingly planted flowerbeds - now conquered by weeds - nor in the lavish portraits covering every wall. Lucas belongs to a darker world, one crawling with the only creatures he really trusts: insects. As the house crumbles before his eyes, Lucas turns to the allies of his underground kingdom to help him take revenge. Weaving together past and present like a spider's web, This World Does Not Belong to Us is a spine-tingling story of human greed, from a masterful new literary voice.
E-bok
Engelska, 2022222 kr
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Lucas was just a child when his father sold him to another farmer as a laborer. Years later, Lucas returns, full of resentment and burning for revenge.
After years away, Lucas returns uninvited to the home he was expelled from as a child. The garden has been conquered by weeds, which blanket his mother’s beloved flowerbeds and his father’s grave alike. A lot has changed since Eloy and Felisberto were invited into the family home to work for Lucas’s father, long ago. The two hulking strangers have brought the land and everyone on it under their control—and removed nuisances like Lucas. Now everything rots. Lucas, a hardened young man, turns to a world that thrives in dirt and darkness: the world of insects. In raw, lyrical prose, García Freire portrays a world brought low by human greed, while hinting at glimmers of hope in the unlikeliest places.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
185 kr
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Cocuan, a desolate town nestled between the hot jungle and the frigid Andes, is about to slip away from memory. This is where Mildred was born, and where everything she had-her animals, her home, her lands-was taken from her after her mother's death. Years later, a series of strange events, disappearances, and outbursts of collective delirium will force its residents to reckon with the legend of old Mildred. Once again, they will feel the shadow of death that has hung over the town ever since she was wronged. The voices of nine characters-Mildred, Ezequiel, Agustina, Manzi, Carmen, Vctor, Baltasar, Hermosina, and Filatelio-tell us of the past and present of that doomed place and Mildred's fate. Natalia Garca Freire's vivid language blurs the lines between dreams and reality and transports the reader to the hypnotic Andean universe of Ecuador.
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Engelska, 2025222 kr
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The residents of a desolate town nestled in the Ecuadorian Andes are forced to reckon with the legend of Mildred, a girl wronged by the town years ago
Cocuán, a desolate town nestled between the hot jungle and the frigid Andes, is about to slip away from memory. This is where Mildred was born, and where everything she had—her animals, her home, her lands—was taken from her after her mother’s death. Years later, a series of strange events, disappearances, and outbursts of collective delirium will force its residents to reckon with the legend of old Mildred. Once again, they will feel the shadow of death that has hung over the town ever since she was wronged. The voices of nine characters—Mildred, Ezequiel, Agustina, Manzi, Carmen, Víctor, Baltasar, Hermosina, and Filatelio—tell us of the past and present of that doomed place and Mildred''s fate.Natalia García Freire’s vivid language blurs the lines between dreams and reality and transports the reader to the hypnotic Andean universe of Ecuador.
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Spanska, 2024109 kr
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Cocuán, pueblo perdido y olvidado, entre la selva y el frío de las montañas andinas, está a punto de desaparecer de la memoria. En él nació Mildred y allí también fue despojada de sus animales, su casa y sus tierras tras la muerte de su madre. Años después, una serie de sucesos extraños, desapariciones, episodios de locura y desvaríos, hará que sus habitantes recuerden la leyenda de la vieja Mildred y sientan de nuevo la sombra de la muerte que persigue al pueblo desde entonces. Las voces de nueve personajes, Mildred, Ezequiel, Agustina, Manzi, Carmen, Víctor, Baltasar, Hermosina y Filatelio, nos hablan del pasado y el presente de un lugar condenado y del milagro de Diosmadre en la Tierra.En esta novela, el lector se convierte en un habitante más de Cocuán y es arrastrado por un lenguaje desbordante que desdibuja las fronteras entre los sueños y la realidad. Natalia García Freire retrata de nuevo en Trajiste contigo el viento el hipnótico universo andino, escenario privilegiado de su imaginario, único en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea.
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Spanska, 202195 kr
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"¿Cómo se denomina al que regresa?", se pregunta Lucas cuando vuelve a su casa, donde ahora viven dos desconocidos: Felisberto y Eloy. El regreso es una larga conversación con su padre muerto, un reproche, una invocación, una súplica. Su madre fue enviada lejos hace ya tiempo y en el jardín que tanto amaba ahora solo crece la mala hierba. Ellos están ahí, viven con Sarai, Noah y Mara, las mujeres que lo criaron y que ahora, como todo lo que está dentro de la casa, les pertenecen. Contra su voluntad, Lucas se convierte en el testigo del derrumbe de lo que un día fue el pilar y refugio de su infancia: los cimientos y las paredes se desmoronan, los rincones acumulan podredumbre, la oscuridad todo lo cubre. Pero es esa oscuridad la que conduce a Lucas hacia el mundo subterráneo que ha sobrevivido a la invasión: el mundo de los insectos. Nuestra piel muerta explora ese mundo ínfimo, más perfecto que el humano y más sagrado que Dios, y para ello se sirve de un acusado tono lírico y una estructura que va atando los recuerdos del protagonista con el momento presente como si de una telaraña se tratase, en cuyo centro se encuentran preguntas y reflexiones sobre el mal, la enfermedad, la muerte y la locura. ¿Llama la descomposición a la vida o al fin de esta? ¿Dónde se encuentra lo divino? ¿El milagro es la cordura o la enajenación?