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November 2020
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FictionTodos mis padres
by Fernando Yacamán
This book is a gay-themed novel, set in Mexico City between the eighties of the last century and the present decade. Through its pages we observe the search for the identity of Luis Habib, a young man who lives the gay night of the city, with all its temptations and all its dangers. Luis has several sexual and affective relationships, among them with “El Centauro”, a university professor of Geography, who is married and has a son, and always keeps Luis at a distance. Luis's relationships are almost always with older men, men who in many ways are also cruel and violent, a bit like his father, like "El Coyote".
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FictionSeptember 2018Papeles de Myra Hindley
by Luis Bugarini
Myra Hindley (1942-2002) spent thirty-six years in prison, that is, she spent more time in captivity than in the enjoyment of her freedom. He lived for sixty years and died of respiratory failure. The facts ─abominable, without explanation, far from any humanity─ are known to all, although they remain controversial for those who seek a single truth where there seem to be too many. Hindley wrote repeatedly in prison letters to his mother as well as the most diverse explanations about what happened. These papers, which could have been written by her, must be read in the light of the events of her life between 1966 and 2002, in which her existence was transformed into a long tunnel of iridescences that sometimes carried some hope of freedom. Hindley would have practiced confessional writing because he had no other way to free herself from remorse, boredom, or the unfulfilled longings to get back on the streets. More than fifty years after she was sentenced and ten years after she died at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St. Edmunds, her figure imposes a long shadow on the recent history of the United Kingdom, which extends to the West. The predatory instinct exists in society and there is no education to help eliminate it completely.
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FictionInstrucciones para la catástrofe
by Guillermo Fajardo
These short stories are a catalog of the ways in which we inhabit our hells. A Pontius Pilate punished by a vengeful God, a detective who seeks justice at all costs, communities ravaged by cannibalism and violence, secret societies that find pleasure in torturing animals. With a refined and lively language, the characters in these stories are left broken amid the ashes left by their own destiny. Guillermo Fajardo summons a multitude of specters that, wrapped in their shadows, are a constant reminder of their failures. Driven by curiosity and a sense of survival, these lives have lost their purpose. The reader will have to show them the way.
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FictionDígalo sin miedo
by Isa González
Dígalo sin miedo compiles 12 stories that narrate secret games and adventures of the conscience in search of autonomy to find sexual fulfillment, enlightenment, freedom or even death ...
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FictionAdicción a ver muertos
by Oswaldo Buendía Galicia
This novel is the first installment of a fantastic trilogy, it narrates the adventures of two weird detectives (a man with "age problems" and a ghost dwarf ... yes, ghost dwarf) who are dedicated to solve the strangest cases of a city called Ciudeath. Everything in this novel is a transgression of genres that, paradoxically, serves to honor them.The black and sly humor, politically incorrect, is obvious: his author has a perfect rhythm to release dialogues that are linked to the action. In addition, the environment in which the episodes take place is dark, gothic. A novel that comes out of the ordinary within the so-called 'Mexican Noir'.
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FictionAugust 2021Alimañas
by Rodrigo Díaz Guerrero
Alimañas (Vermin)Rodrigo Díaz Guerrero The stories included in this collection (Efrén Hernández Story Award 2020) are audacious and sincere, but above all, they are proof of the author´s aesthetic commitment, conscious as he is that telling stories implies heavy breathing, proper concentration to be able to fathom his own abysms and come back to the surface with something more than just stories; discoveries that perhaps relate more to us than him, because this work already belongs to the reader.
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FictionJuly 2021La gran broma de Babel
by Daniel Escoto
Three women (two wet nurses, one prostitute) tell us their life stories set in the context of the 11th and 12th centuries. Their gazes allow us to discover multiple sceneries: from the splendors of court to the buoyant life of trade fairs and flourishing medieval cities. From very different perspectives and languages, each one gives an account of her experiences in the face of the religious heresies of her time. A great many apostasies break into that world and disrupt its order. Defying the power of Rome, they represent different ways of interpreting religion and therefore of acting and thinking. The three protagonists witness these shocks and, like so many others, suffer from the convulsions of history. -- Tres mujeres (dos nodrizas, una prostituta) nos relatan sus historias de vida en el contexto de los siglos XI y XII. Sus miradas nos permiten conocer los escenarios de fastos cortesanos, ferias mercantiles y la vida boyante de las ciudades medievales que florecen. Desde perspectivas y lenguajes muy distintos, cada una da cuenta de sus experiencias frente a las herejías religiosas de su tiempo. Éstas irrumpen en ese mundo y trastocan su orden. Frente al poderío de Roma, representan formas distintas de interpretar la religión y por lo tanto, de actuar y pensar. Las tres protagonistas atestiguan estos choques y, como tantos otros, padecen las convulsiones de la historia.
