Literary Fiction

Banana Street

by Macaria España

Description

Isabel Tierra Frías is still a young woman who has gone through all kinds of humiliations, until one day that she decides to set scores straight. Then she becomes what: a vigilante, a heroin, just a killer? Taking a comedy stand closer to comic-book stories, Macaria España deals with some of the most dramatic situations for women in Mexico with a good pinch of humour, which has brought her protagonist, Isabel Tierra Frías, as one of the deares characters in Mexican literature today

More Information

Marketing Information

Banana Street became a sudden success and gained a deserved fandom due to its protagonist, half heroin, half vigilante. Its non-chalant use of the sense of humour when addressing terrible facts is one the most praised achievements of the novel, which now is a part of a oncoming multiverse.

Author Biography

Macaria España is a Journalism graduate with several awards for her work, both as a journalist and as a fiction writer. She has published four books of short stories and two crime novels. She is currently creating a multiverse around Banana Street, such as Madafakers!, also in Nitro/Press

Trusted Partner
2024 Frankfurt Invitation Programme

Nitro/Press

Nitro/Press is an independent publishing house founded in 1997 that specialises in avant-garde stories and essays by authors of different generations from all over Mexico and Latin America.

View all titles

Series Part

Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher/Imprint Nitro/Press / Yes
  • Publication Date 2020
  • Orginal LanguageSpanish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9786078256884
  • Publication Country or regionMexico
  • FormatPaperback
  • Primary Price 160 MXN
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language TitleBanana Street
  • Original Language Authorsspa
  • Edition1
  • Copyright Year2020
  • Dimensions225x150 mm
  • IllustrationNo
  • SeriesNitroNoir

Subscribe to our

newsletter