Brenda Lozano

The beguiling story of a young journalist whose investigation of a murder leads her to the most legendary healer in all of Mexico, from one of the most prominent voices of a new generation of Latin American writers

Paloma is dead. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. Before she was murdered, she taught her cousin Feliciana the secrets of the ceremonies known as veladas, and about the Language and the Book that unlock their secrets.

Sent to report on Paloma’s murder, Zoe meets Feliciana in the mountain village of San Felipe. There, the two women’s lives twist around each other in a danse macabre. Feliciana tells Zoe the story of her struggle to become an accepted healer in her community, and Zoe begins to understand the hidden history of her own experience as a woman, finding her way in a hostile environment shaped by and for men.

Weaving together two parallel narratives that mirror and refract one another, this extraordinary novel envisions the healer as storyteller and the writer as healer, and offers a generous and nuanced understanding of a world that can be at turns violent and exultant, cruel and full of hope.

“A story of the world’s repeated failure to control feminine power and the sheer magic of language itself. An enthralling, passionate story about secrets both holy and profane.” —Catherine Lacey, author of Pew and Nobody Is Ever Missing

A Novel

Witches

Loop

İdeal Defter

Fernanda Melchor

Alfonso Valencia

Emiliano Monge

Antonio Ortuño

Daniela Tarazona

Jaime Mesa

Daniel Espartaco Sánchez

Luis Panini

Karla Zárate

Aniela Rodríguez

César Albarrán

Verónica Gerber

Franco Felix

Paulette Jonguitud

Nicolas Cabral

Gabriel Wolfson

Lola Ancira

Oswaldo Zavala

Mariel Iribe Zenil

Luis Carlos Fuentes

Daniela Bojórquez

"Islas bañadas por el mismo mar y con corrientes comunicantes", así definía David Miklos los proyectos narrativos incluidos en el primer volumen de esta antología, que Malaletra difundió gratuitamente en 2015. Este libro completa aquel primer esfuerzo e incluye 22 relatos inéditos de escritoras y escritores mexicanos nacidos a partir de 1975. "Apenas una sana muestra de lo que ocurre actualmente en la narrativa mexicana", pero representativa de "un ánimo liberado –es decir: desgeneracionalizado". "Sigo pensando en que esta generación, por así llamarla, está compuesta por personas alérgicas al conjunto, seres independientes que aprendieron muy pronto a desmarcarse de la naturaleza patriarcal y mercadotécnica del Boom, así como del manifiesto nunca del todo logrado del Crack (y que en realidad era una resonancia local del propio Boom)". David Miklos (Compilador)

Narrativa mexicana joven

22 Voces Vols. 1 y 2

Cuaderno ideal

Jorge Carrión

Jazmina Barrera

Selva Almada

Dolores Reyes

Luis Chitarroni

Carla Maliandi

Martín Kohan

María Sonia Cristoff

Reynaldo Sietecase

Edgardo Scott

Mercedes Halfon

Katya Adaui

Con este libro nos vamos a dar cuenta de que no hay una definición única. Están quienes fusionan sus bibliotecas al casarse y quienes, al irse a convivir con otra persona, prefieren mantenerlas separadas. También hay bibliotecas "inmateriales": libros leídos pero no acumulados, desperdigados por el universo. Y por qué no, bibliotecas separadas: una en Buenos Aires y otra en Rosario. ¿Obsesión por el orden, clasificación de las obras por género? ¿Libros que se prestan?

Bibliotecas

Brujas / Witches

«[...]Un vórtice de gravedad que condensa toda la literatura de Brenda Lozano, donde conviven lo oral y lo escrito, las tradiciones populares y cierta perspectiva cosmopolita, el humor y la tragedia. Una inyección de electricidad, una música que se sigue escuchando mucho más allá de sus páginas.» Mauro Libertella Paloma está muerta. Ha sido asesinada. Pero antes de ser Paloma, su nombre fue Gaspar. Antes de ser Paloma, Gaspar hacía ceremonias para curar a la gente, pero desde que se convirtió en Paloma, se dedicó a la vida nocturna con los hombres. Prefirió el amor a la purificación. Fue ella quien enseñó a Feliciana todo lo que sabe sobre la curandería. Con este aprendizaje, Feliciana descubre que, además de curar el cuerpo, también puede curar el alma. Pronto sus poderes serán conocidos en todas partes y personas de todo el mundo la visitarán para sanarse. Ella se convertirá en la curandera de El Lenguaje. Por otro lado, la periodista Zoé decide visitar a Feliciana al pueblo de San Felipe para descubrir no sólo la verdad sobre el asesinato, sino también la vida de la curandera. Y en ese mismo tenor, construirá su propio relato. Brujas es una historia de tradiciones, sanaciones, violencia y, sobre todo, de la importancia del lenguaje; una novela maravillosamente escrita.

Brujas

A remarkable novel by one of the most exciting new voices in Latin America today This is the story of who Feliciana is, and of who Paloma was. I had wanted to get to know them, but I realised right away that the people I needed to know better were my sister Leandra and my mother. Myself. I came to understand that you can't really know another woman until you know yourself... Weaving together two parallel narratives, Witches tells the story of Feliciana, an indigenous curandera or healer, and Zoe, a journalist: two women who meet through the murder of Feliciana's cousin Paloma. In the tiny village of San Felipe in Jalisco province, where traditional ways and traditional beliefs are a present reality, Feliciana tells the story of her life, her community's acceptance of her as a genuine curandera and the difficult choices faced by her joyful and spirited cousin Paloma who is both a healer and a Muxe - a trans woman. Growing up in Mexico City, Zoe attempts to find her way in a society straitjacketed by its hostile macho culture. But it is Feliciana's and Paloma's stories that draw her own story out of her, taking her on a journey to understanding her place in the world and the power of her voice. This captivating novel of two Mexicos envisions the writer as a healer and offers a generous and distinctly female way of understanding the complex world we all inhabit. Translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary

Gabriela Jauregui

antología de diez escritoras mexicanas

Monstrua

Streghe

Una historia de amor. Una suerte de Penélope esperando a su Odiseo, que en lugar de tejer, escribe. Cuaderno ideal es una historia de amor, narrada desde el punto de vista de ella, quien es una suerte de Penélope que en lugar de tejer y destejer, escribe y borra mientras él vuelve a casa. Él pierde a su madre, ella recién se recupera de un accidente, se conocen poco después de estos eventos que los marcan hondamente y pronto se mudan juntos. Luego de un tiempo en pareja, las pérdidas piden atención. Él viaja a España, lugar de origen de la madre, ella se queda en el departamento. Así comienza el viaje al interior de la protagonista. La violencia que se vive en México es un telón de fondo. Un enano es el punto de partida para cuestionar las distintas escalas en la vida diaria. Una golondrina es un símbolo musical constante y cambiante a lo largo de la novela. Una piñata de Proust, los planetitas a los que viaja un gato mientras duerme, David Bowie cantando Wild is the Wind aparecen, entre otras cosas, en esta novela.

The beguiling story of a young journalist whose investigation of a murder leads her to the most legendary healer in all of Mexico, from one of the most prominent voices of a new generation of Latin American writers Paloma is dead. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. Before she was murdered, she taught her cousin Feliciana the secrets of the ceremonies known as veladas, and about the Language and the Book that unlock their secrets. Sent to report on Paloma’s murder, Zoe meets Feliciana in the mountain village of San Felipe. There, the two women’s lives twist around each other in a danse macabre. Feliciana tells Zoe the story of her struggle to become an accepted healer in her community, and Zoe begins to understand the hidden history of her own experience as a woman, finding her way in a hostile environment shaped by and for men. Weaving together two parallel narratives that mirror and refract one another, this extraordinary novel envisions the healer as storyteller and the writer as healer, and offers a generous and nuanced understanding of a world that can be at turns violent and exultant, cruel and full of hope. “A story of the world’s repeated failure to control feminine power and the sheer magic of language itself. An enthralling, passionate story about secrets both holy and profane.” —Catherine Lacey, author of Pew and Nobody Is Ever Missing

Winner PEN Translates Award (UK) Recovering from an unspecified accident, the narrator of Loop finds herself in waiting rooms of different kinds: airport departure lounges, doctors’ surgeries, and above all at home, awaiting the return of her boyfriend, who has travelled to Spain following the death of his mother. Loop is a love story told from the perspective of a contemporary Penelope who, instead of weaving and unravelling her shroud, writes and erases her thoughts in her ‘ideal’ notebook. At once, funny and thought-provoking, her thoughts range from her stationery preferences to the different scales on which life is lived, while a cast of unlikely characters cross the page, from Proust to a mysterious dwarf, from a dreamy cat to David Bowie singing ‘Wild is the Wind’. Written in an assured, irreverent style, Loop is the journal of an absence, one in which the most minute or whimsical observations open up universes. Combining aphoristic fragments with introspective narrative, and evoking Italo Calvino and Fernando Pessoa in its playfulness and wry humour, this original reflection on relationships, solitude and the purpose of writing offers a glimpse of contemporary life in Mexico City, while asking what it really means to find our place in the world.

"A lo largo de la historia, la idea de lo monstruoso se relaciona con lo ajeno, lo extraño. Desde los monstruos pintados en las cuevas prehistóricas, los imaginados por los navegantes medievales en los mares inexplorados, hasta la representación actual de los extraterrestres: los monstruos le ponen cuerpo a lo desconocido. Y es de esta forma también que los libros pueden volverse monstruos: ejemplos transformadores, inquietantes, que nos invitan a repensar la normalidad." Estas palabras nos introducen a la presente antología de textos en torno al cuerpo, volumen que hilvana una red de escrituras en la cual diez autoras jóvenes mexicanas de diversos orígenes, lenguas y perspectivas construyen un territorio de libertad para la experimentación literaria. Las escritoras Brenda Lozano y Gabriela Jáuregui coordinan la creación de esta monstrua desde un laboratorio de conversaciones, complicidades e intercambios para generar un espacio en el que lxs jóvenes de la comunidad universitaria y todxs lxs lectorxs a los que llegue esta propuesta conocerán nuevas narrativas y experiencias de lectura, nuevas miradas, estructuras y lenguajes.

Monstrua. Antología de diez escritoras mexicanas

Adam annesini kaybetmiştir, kadın geçirdiği kazanın ardından iyileşme dönemindedir. Tanıştıktan kısa süre sonra beraber yaşamaya başlarlar. Ama adam annesinin anısının izinde İspanya’ya gider, kadın da Meksiko’da onu bekler. Odysseus’u bekleyen Penelope gibi, Godot’yu bekleyen Vladimir ve Estragon gibi... Bu bekleyiş aynı zamanda içsel bir yolculuk. Hem sevgilisinin yokluğunun yarattığı boşluğu kapamaya hem de şehirdeki kırtasiyeleri dolaşarak ideal defterini bulmaya çalışır. İdeal Defter kadının bakış açısından anlatılan bir aşk hikâyesi. Bu modern çağ Penelope’si örüp sökmek yerine defterine yazıp silmektedir, zira “ideal bir defter kısa, bölük pörçük, tutarsız, uzun veya rastlantısaldır.” Meksikalı yazar Brenda Lozano parçalı, duraklamalar ve kısa paragraflarla dolu, haiku’ları andıran tekrarlayan cümleciklere de yer verdiği bir anlatı sunuyor. İspanyolcadan çeviren Nergis Gürcihan Notos Edebiyat-Roman #NotosKitap #NotosEdebiyatDizisi

Sarah Kramer

Joel Craig

Kamilah Foreman

Sarah Dodson

MAKE X collects memorable work published throughout the last ten years by beloved Chicago literary magazine MAKE. Through fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and reviews, alongside new visual art portfolios, interviews, and stories from the editors, MAKE X honors a decade of storytelling and literary rabble-rousing in Chicago.

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