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        Una música futura

        by María José Navia

        In "Una música futura" ("A future music"), awarded Best Literary Works 2019 in the category of unpublished short stories, María José Navia delves into intimate relationships mediated and sometimes infected by technology. Screens and screen-families, women who take refuge in the excess of information or try to completely disconnect from the world, foreigners who face fierce self-demanding or frankly violent scenarios. Seven stories that reflect on the possibilities of a threatening future where the uncertainty of our time seems to sing a secret and disturbing melody from which perhaps books can save us.

      • Fiction
        October 2018

        Kintsugi

        by María José Navia

        How can a family be told? What are the pieces that make up your memory? What do we know about someone, beyond what they decide to show us? In Kintsugi, a family breaks down and those who make it up look for ways -sometimes subtle, sometimes extreme- to repair it. Characters who take refuge in their jobs or in caring for others, who need technology as a way to organize their affections, to perform small gestures of vigilance or even to survive in a precarious world. In the manner of the Japanese art that gives this book its title, María José Navia recomposes in this novel-in-stories the broken lives of its characters, beautifully highlighting the scars of those who leave and those who remain.

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        December 2019

        Sara

        by Maivo Suárez

        It is a cold winter in Santiago de Chile and Sara, a sixty-three-year-old retired secretary, will live alone for the first time in her life. Far from being sad, she feels that she will finally be able to carry her own life. But Julia arrives at the apartment building, and the throbbing youth of this new neighbor will also bring new lenses with which to look at reality. While cutting expenses to survive on a paltry pension, Sara looks back at her life and the past. To the memories add up the aging body, loneliness and faint projects. And yet life gives her a chance. Will it be too late to take it? In Sara, an impressive psychological portrait awarded the 2017 Gabriela Mistral Literary Games award for an unpublished novel, the author Maivo Suárez brings before our eyes a character that has rarely been written about: a separated and poor old woman, the perfect second-best, whose details she manages to draw thanks to an accurate and devastating analysis that underlines the shortcomings of today's society. A literary debut with the soul of a classic.

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