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Una brillante radiografía de las dinámicas laborales en el sector del turismo.
El turismo ha cambiado la faz de muchas …
Flotes, això és el màxim que has aconseguit. Tens mitja feina, una habitació rellogada i un títol que acredita que …
Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie …
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down …
El 9 de enero de 1993 un hombre, llamado Jean-Claude Romand, mató a su esposa, …
Escritura adictiva, una historia escalofriante (por verdadera), pero la falta de perspectiva de género se va haciendo insoportable.
Mariana Enriquez regresa al cuento con doce historias de horror. Doce relatos sobre el mal …
Los he leído más como viñetas que como cuentos, porque la mayoría terminan de forma más bien abrupta. Supongo que por aquello de jugar con el fuera de campo, porque lo que te imaginas puede ser peor que lo que te cuentan. A veces es efectivo y a veces no tanto. Aun así los he disfrutado mucho, Enríquez es una maestra de introducir lo escalofríante en la cotidianidad. Como en sus libros anteriores, lo terrorífico nace de lo real: la dictadura argentina, desigualdades sociales, machismo, violencia obstetrica, traumas transgeneracionales... no sé cómo lo hace, pero te cita a Taylor Swift en un cuento sobre el éxodo rural forzado y funciona. No he leído nada de ella que me haya dejado indiferente.
I wish I had this book when I was 14. Dragons and lesbian knights, what a combo! I was hooked at first, the worldbuilding and the diversity of characters is a plus, even if it got a bit repetitive as it went on. Definitely worth it to soothe the queer nerd teen who didn't see herself reflected in all the fantasy she read.
Nosotras y las autoras que participan en este volumen, hamor 9 amigas, reivindicamos y practicamos la amistad en múltiples y …
Cuando llegó a Córdoba capital para estudiar en la universidad, Camila Sosa Villada fue una noche, muerta de miedo, a …
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders …
Both haunting and mesmerising. I love how Machado uses the weird (and sometimes the eerie, wink-wink Mark Fisher) to introduce topics of complex emotional resonance (i.e. identity, desire, power). This is what I want from all my speculative fiction: to explore the boundaries of the familiar, to peek into the liminal spaces between reality and the supernatural, to be challenged into confronting my own fears. Some of these stories will stay with me for a long while I think.
For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex …
This book got under my skin and won't let go. Sure it's moving, devastating, witty, but honestly reading it is such a particular experience that words run short.
Something I specially liked: obviously it's a memoir but it yanks you from one genre to another (i.e. from horror to comedy). It couldn't work in any other way. The shifts keep you on your toes; they reflect the uncertainty of an abusive relationship while offering a sense of hope in a harrowing journey.
And the structure is so smart! Each chapter-vignette, each quote and footnote and heading are bricks to build a new canon. Because the author couldn't find a context in which to make sense of her experience, she created one herself (while gifting us with a much-needed precedent). No more "archival silence".
None of this makes it hard to follow or takes you away from the story. The writing …
This book got under my skin and won't let go. Sure it's moving, devastating, witty, but honestly reading it is such a particular experience that words run short.
Something I specially liked: obviously it's a memoir but it yanks you from one genre to another (i.e. from horror to comedy). It couldn't work in any other way. The shifts keep you on your toes; they reflect the uncertainty of an abusive relationship while offering a sense of hope in a harrowing journey.
And the structure is so smart! Each chapter-vignette, each quote and footnote and heading are bricks to build a new canon. Because the author couldn't find a context in which to make sense of her experience, she created one herself (while gifting us with a much-needed precedent). No more "archival silence".
None of this makes it hard to follow or takes you away from the story. The writing is bewitching at times, always rich in feelings. I want to read everything Carmen Maria Machado has ever written.
