Lara has never been so burdened by her grandmother’s silence and her eyes in a lost stareas she is now, when she has to take care of her for a few days. The one who doesn’t talk much either is Maureen, the Haitian doctor’s daughter who has just moved to town, although that only increases … Read more
Teresa lives in one of those towns where all the neighbors are like family. That’s why they organize and celebrate birthdays together. When she decides to go to Margo’s painting workshop, a woman different from the rest of the town, the young woman will discover a painful secret that she kept inside her since childhood … Read more
Six friends. Saturday at night. Village festival. Tuti is going to play with his band. An invisible tension floats between what each claims to be and what it really is. The need to discover oneself and, at the same time, fit into a complex plot of encounters and disagreements. Roberta goes because Juan goes. Juan … Read more
An open novel, in which three generations are linked, wars, separations, losses, a secret, a trip and an expected meeting. A sensitive writing, fragmented like the memories of the characters, like the subtle and mysterious ways that life has of tying us together with the events that transform us. Outstanding work by ALIJA as best … Read more
A novel and a question: what leads people to make marks on their bodies that last forever? Paul Gauguin leads us towards some answers, who sketches in a notebook the drawings of the legs of Taia, a young woman from Polynesia; little Eloy, who listens to his grandmother’s experiences; a wooden suitcase that will define … Read more
When they took the mummy down from the mountain, the universe broke into pieces… The team led by the anthropologist Vera Larsen manages to rescue an Inca mummy which they call “The Red Maiden” from the top of the highest volcano in America. The news causes shock among scientists around the world and among the … Read more
A novel that talks about Bullying. Since he was a boy, Esper had learned not to be noticed. Many times he had confessed to the Bat-footed Man that he was a chameleon. That it could be a bench, a wall, grass, a window. Especially at school. He was invisible at school. He was an artist … Read more
This nouvelle is part of the fantastic genre, although it has links to “border literature”. Two stories are intertwined here: one, that of the adolescent Inés, takes place in the near past, in the setting of her grandmother’s country house; the other, on the other hand, distances itself from the first in more than a … Read more
The story seems minimal: it takes place in a town and the situations are lived by a group of adolescents who have witnessed a brutal event that disturbs and threatens them. An unleashing with something police leads to the outcome; there is punishment for the culprit and the adolescents stay, perhaps transformed, but with their … Read more