My Dead Women
by Guillermo Fadanelli
Description
Domingo has decided to fulfill the mission entrusted to him by his older brothers: placing a tombstone on his mother's grave. Time passes and the tombstone remains in the trunk of his car without having this man organizing himself to set out for the cemetery. Drunkenness is a difficult obstacle to overcome. Every morning he promises his absent mother that he will fulfill the mission, but once again breaks his oath. The death of his wife ends up undermining his lucidity and placing him in a state of constant delirium. Time transforms him into a melancholic, sullen and harmless man who quotes passages from Russian novels by heart and talks to his dead women. While this is happening the eyes of a teenage girl do not stop observing his behavior, it is her neighbor, the youngest of all the women with whom Domingo has managed to establish a true friendship. "Is it possible to communicate with people of that age?" He wonders as his confusion grows. My Dead Women is a novel about melancholy and human loneliness faced by a man whose drunkenness made him an expert on the states of the soul.
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Editorial MOHO has the rights only in Mexico. It has not been published in Editorial MOHO yet. It was published before by Random House Mexico in 2012, as a Grijanbo Award.
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Reviews
"Guillermo Fadanelli is a Mexican writer, powerful and marginal at the same time, a great combination. One of the greatest of his country":
Enrique Vila—Matas
"Fadanelli’s responsibility is a literary responsibility. It is, first of all, the understanding that the job of a writer fundamentally consists of two things: write a good book and keep the dialogue, which, from Homer to Borges, the human spirit has maintained alive with itself":
Enrique Maccari
Author Biography
Guillermo Fadanelli was born in Mexico City at El Sagrado Corazón Hospital located in Calzada de Tlalpan, D. F. A hospital that no longer exists: it is a hotel now. At nine years old he fronts his first fight with fists and the child who was nicknamed El Caperuza defeats him. At the age of eleven, his father enrolls him at a military school, where he becomes more cynical rather than corrected. At thirteen he wins his first fight after a long history of losses. At the age of eighteen he gets his first car: Rambler 67. His first trip outside the country is to San Francisco at the age of twenty-one. There, he meets his uncle Johnny, a former Vietnam fighter who initiates him into the art of drinking tons of beer. In the early eighties he starts studying Engineering and never gets the title because he avoids entering classes. At this time, is when literature starts interesting him. At Engineering School he meets Yolanda Martinez, and together with a group of friends he founds MOHO Magazine. His first book is entitled The Day I See Her, I'll Kill Her (El día que la vea la voy a matar), published by Editorial Grijalbo. In the early nineties he sells Christmas trees at the 87th and Second Avenue corner in New York, he earns 1500 dollars. Some years later, he works as a salesman in a bakery in Madrid; in exchange for his work he receives a roof and food, no payment. He lives in Berlin for a year, and he is surprised because beer is served warm there. He is also interested in the Hohenzollern’s biography. In Bogotá and Havana he makes good friends. In Lima he excites the press (a newspaper announces his disappearance and possible abduction), and in Graz he goes to have a drink with the director of the Criminology Museum. He has published several novels and holds on to lead Editorial Moho. Nowadays he has lost most of his friends because of the passing time. Anyway, he seems to be very happy.
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Copyright @Guillermo Fadanelli, 2012, 2021.
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- Publisher Editorial Moho
- Publication Date October 2012
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- Publication Country or regionMexico
- FormatBook
- Primary Price 25 USD
- Pages216
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Original Language TitleSpanish
- Original Language AuthorsSpanish
- EditionFirst: 2012; Second: 2021
- Copyright Year2012
- Page sizeheight (21x24 ) cm
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