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      • Fiction

        Andreaa Constantin

        by Esteban Torres Lana

        A dangerous challenge at sea through a rock arch battered by strong waves. She ends up seriously injured in a leg when her friend Aurelio arrives at the cove. Overcoming her pain, she hides her injuries from Aurelio and tells him the extraordinary story of her mother, which propelled her to undertake such a madness. The story begins 6 years ago in Tenerife, with Nayra's expulsion from Philosophy class for the third time in a week, causing Pablo, her father, to pick her up from school and embark on a long day of disputes, confessions, and finally, complicities between them. Walking around Santa Cruz, canceling classes and professional commitments, Pablo and Nayra spend the day discovering a personal and sentimental reality that surprises them. The problems Nayra mentions with a group of immigrant classmates, along with the aggression Nayra shows towards her mother, Lola, prompt Pablo to tell her the unfinished story with Andreea, a high-class Romanian prostitute. Pablo cannot control the level of intimacy of the tale despite his own amazement, hearing himself say things he thought were unspeakable. Nayra responds, between disputes and affection, interspersing her own confidences, some of them having a strong impact, like the adventure with an immigrant who arrived on the beaches of Fuerteventura during a summer excursion. Neither tells the most intimate details of their stories truthfully, but they are accessible to the reader. Despite frequent arguments due to the teenager's incisive and groundbreaking language, their complicity grows and they end up spending the day together, walking through different places in the city. The story with Andreea takes on dramatic tones that completely captivate the young woman. Two suicides, the chase by Romanian mafia, returning to her hometown, searching for Pablo, Andreea’s struggle to regain her dignity and her artistic capacity through painting, and the apparent disappearance of her father's life, capture Nayra’s attention. Despite the narrative tricks used by Pablo, when night falls and they reach home, Nayra connects the dots and is surprised to discover that her perfectionist and successful mother, a recognized painter from Santa Cruz, with whom she has had a very conflictive season, is Andreea Constantin, the Romanian immigrant her father met as a high-class prostitute. After an initial reaction of rejection due to the ignorance in which she was kept, she understands her mother's situation. All the questions she always had about many details of her life arise with the discovery. A few years after discovering her identity, Andreea disappears from home. A call from Romania alerts them to the discovery of two charred bodies near her birthplace and the presence of her old exploiter nearby, who cursed her for life through a Transylvania ritual when she abandoned prostitution. Knowing she was discovered in Tenerife, Andreea tried to keep her family away from danger and returned to her country, where she was easy prey for the mafia. Pablo and his daughter Nayra fly to Bucharest to identify Andreea’s body, which may have been brutally murdered and burned. When it seems the identification will be negative, a small detail of the clothing makes them doubt. Desolate, they receive medical and psychological support from the Romanian team, but it turns out to be a false lead. Andreea is rescued from a hideout and has survived due to a misunderstanding by her captors. Protected by the Romanian police, she later becomes a key witness whose testimony ends the dangerous band of her pimp. But that bravery comes at a price; 2 years later, she does not return from an art exhibition in Paris. The police believe that her exploiter’s curse was fulfilled by a nephew who visited him in prison shortly before his death and was seen in Paris during the days Andreea had the exhibition. After a year of anguish, Nayra can no longer bear the situation and decides to mourn her mother at the cove where she painted her last picture. It had as its background the rock arch symbolizing the risk of living and facing life’s challenges. Nayra considers her mother lost and throws Andreea’s ashes into the sea, symbolized by those of a magnolia branch she planted many years ago. With this, she internalizes the loss and the fighting values Andreea taught her. The exit from the volcanic cove is a song to the life that continues and to the young woman who represents it. The novel is dedicated to the memory of Andreea Constantin and the thousands of women sexually exploited around the world.

      • Trusted Partner
        Fantasy & magical realism (Children's/YA)
        2014

        El rapto de Eloisa (The abduction of Eloisa)

        by Jorge Esquinca, Chiara Carrer

        A girl and her mother, three crows, spikes on a field, and clouds draw the first scene. But the girl, like all children, expect her great adventure of being lost. The mistery kidnaps her. It leads her to an underground dream where the dream is reality and darkness is clear as a diamond light. Oneiric, musical story, opened to “what is heard inside”, this book invites us to discover that beyond the veil that is spread between the world and the things, “each sleeping seed, each root, each stem, every flower that rises,” and us, entirely.

      • Trusted Partner
        Early learning / early learning concepts
        October 2017

        Una cabeza distinta (A different head)

        by Luis Panini, Chiara Carrer

        This child tells us that he is not happy with the head that he has. He thinks it is a wrong head. The parents, after listening to him, take him to a specialist, who agrees with the little one. A mysterious man dressed in black supplies him with heads in exchange for his own. The child tries several, until he finds the one he was looking for. A reindeer head, a crocodile head, a whisk head: the narrator child and protagonist of this story tells us about his disagreement with the head he has and the vicissitudes that he has to go through to find the head with which he will finally agree: the head of a grown man, of a mathematician. This is a story of search for identity and growth, developed with fine fantasy and humor, with the wisdom of someone he has sought and perhaps already found.

      • Trusted Partner
        Family & home stories (Children's/YA)
        October 2017

        Mexique

        El nombre del barco

        by María José Ferrada, Ana Penyas

        On May of 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, 456 sons and daughters of republican fighters took the transatlantic boat Mexique, that set sail in Bordeau to arrive in Mexico. Previsions were that they would stay there three or four months, but the Republican defeat and the beginning of the Second World War changed that brief exile into a definitive one.  This books tells the story not only of those children, but also about the ship, being aware that we do not know how many boats try to cross our oceans every day, moving human beings that have full rights to a proper way of living and not to stand over a land that tears apart below their feet.

      • Trusted Partner
        Family & home stories (Children's/YA)
        October 2020

        Casas

        by María José Ferrada, Pep Carrió

        The authors of this book take us on a journey through the different ways of inhabiting a house. Based on illustrations by Pep Carrió made with acrylic markers, the writer María José Ferrada uses poetic language and humor to propose a set of micro stories that invite readers to observe their own ways of inhabiting the world.

      • I Follow The Voices of Soft, Quiet Goddesses

        by Hugo Roca Joglar

        There is an idea by D.H. Lawrence: 'we are the secret dreams of our grandmothers.' But not the dreams they openly accepted and pursued, rather the secret dreams: those they denied, and merely thinking about them plunged them into fear and guilt. This Hugo Roca's definitive exploration of this concept: It begins with the death of his grandmother and ends with the imminent birth of his daughter, and in between, he narrates his struggle to establish a different flow, where through a process of re-educating himself (which leads to confront the most horrible demons of his lineage), he seeks to stop lying and to have no more secrets: to decipher his hidden dreams so as not to pass on the curse of embodying them to his daughter. A narrative that redefines parenthood and embarks on a profound quest for new forms of beauty.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences

        The Gospel of Prosperity

        Literary and critical perspectives about the science of getting right quick

        by Luis Miguel Estrada

        In 2020, amidst the whirlwind of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ideas from books about the science of becoming a millionaire returned to Luis Miguel Estrada whom, since he left a financial job, has dedicated himself fully to literature. In this book, he thinks  some of the key questions raised by bestsellers from Napoleon Hill to Kiyosaki. Do we stop seeking money just because we pursue art? More importantly: regardless of what we do, how do we seek money? Why have narratives like positive thinking and the law of attraction become a universal language that gains strength during each economic crisis? Is there a link between bestsellers about the science of getting rich and great universal literature? This book attempts to answer these questions, beginning with the origins of books on becoming a millionaire, which delve into the agile 19th-century United States, transition through the fast-paced turn of the century, and explode in the years after the Great Depression. The journey continues with examples of wild successes (real-life fraudsters like Elizabeth Holmes or fictional criminals like Walter White from Breaking Bad) that prompt us to question the influence of success-at-any-cost ideas on popular culture, as well as their ethical limits. How can one reconcile readings, cultural products, and experiences that seem so distant? The broader reading audience responds more to "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill than to "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. Is there a way to read them alongside each other and emerge renewed from the experience? This book invites you on that adventure.

      • Health & Personal Development

        And Then There Was Light

        by Blanca Rosa Gutiérrez

        Faced unexpectedly with Lyme Disease, Spanish Architect Blanca Rosa Gutiérrez must face illness and abandonment, while at the same time trying to take care of her two small children. She struggles to find help and treatment from doctors, until the combination of finding the right physician, and an iron will to overcome adversity through meditation and non traditional healing, puts her back on the road to full health. As the author says in her own words: "I wrote this book with a single purpose in mind: make it into a song of hope for anybody who is ill and feels defeated by pain, and have lost the will to live." This book is not about illness, is about recovery and new beginnings

      • Trusted Partner
        Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's/YA)
        October 2021

        El año de la rata

        by Jorge Alderete

        Our forests are shrinking every year due to fires forestry. Trees and all life that inhabits them, from tiny microorganisms to families of birds and animals are destroyed by flames that in most cases, are caused by we, humans.

      • Health & Personal Development

        Pause and Sense

        by Emily Atallah

        Thousands of people say things such as “I have no time”, “when did life pass me by”, or “I have nothing left to live for.” According to the WHO, nearly 700,000 people commit suicide every year, and conditions such as depression, anxiety, hopelessness, and lack of purpose are increasingly rooted in our societies, blocking our view to a life full of light and possibilities. In the age of instant connectivity, we have never been as disconnected, unmotivated and empty as we are now. In these pages, you will find 10 practical tools that will help you get unstuck, find your way through pain, and reconnect with your purpose towards a plentiful life. The book is divided in three sections that help you understand what is valuable about life, what we can give to the world as human beings, and how we can embrace challenges, increase connectivity with each other and increase our awareness. This book invites you to enrich your own life, through reflections that help you go deep inside, and examples of how others who when through similar experiences, got through them to live a happier, meaningful, and purposeful life.

      • Fiction

        The Countess and the Organ Player

        by Cesia Hirshbein

        In the historical context of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the height of the Romantic era, the 19th century, Anton Bruckner, the famous Austrian composer and organist, falls in love with the imposing Countess Henriette. She had been appointed lady-in-waiting to Princess Charlotte of Belgium, the wife of Prince Maximilian of Habsburg, to attend to her during the couple's Mexican endeavor. They had been named Emperor and Empress of Mexico and would embark on a journey to America for this mission. Bruckner meets the countess by chance at the funeral of Maximilian, who had been assassinated in Querétaro in 1867, during the so-called Second Mexican Empire. On the recommendation of a musician friend of Henriette's, who sees him at the funeral, she takes piano lessons with Bruckner. When she tells him that she had accompanied the empress to Mexico, the composer becomes enchanted. He admired Maximilian and was passionate about Mexico; he had even wanted to accompany the emperor. Ultimately, the only trips he made were to give organ concerts in London and another at Notre Dame in Paris. Between classes, the countess tells him of the Atlantic crossing, the arrival in Veracruz, and the entrance to Mexico City. Gradually, they grow closer. In one of his concerts, Bruckner meets Franz Liszt, who was a patron of Maximilian's empire in Mexico. Meanwhile, the countess and the organist plan a Requiem, which will be the turning point between them.

      • Y todo por una canción

        by Biadiu Llorente, Marta

        Desalentada por un nuevo engaño amoroso y por la reciente muerte de su querida abuela, la insípida y desesperanzada vida de Sara se ve sacudida cuando una canción, una popular habanera, irrumpe en su vida de forma casual y enigmática una tarde de verano. Sara no entiende por qué se estremece cada vez que escucha la popular melodía, pero sí recuerda que sonreía cada vez que su abuela se la cantaba. Ya no hay marcha atrás, la canción parece perseguirla allá donde va y acaba formando parte de su existencia. Sara decide a toda costa seguir las huellas de la canción emprendiendo un viaje  hacia las raíces más hondas del pueblo cubano en búsqueda de un secreto sellado entre abuela y nieta, un secreto transmitido al filo de los años y que ahora ella tratará de esclarecer sorteando toda clase de obstáculos y vivir así la historia más apasionante de su vida.

      • BERZERKER

        FUEGO Y ACERO

        by CLAUDIO MUÑOZ

        ¿El amor o el deber? Un joven guerrero Berzerker debe tomar la decisión que cambiara el destino de las huestes de su regente. Los recuerdos de bellos momentos del pasado volverán a el en un momento clave de su vida.

      • Fiction
        September 2027

        Colección Cuadernos de Elena

        by Elena Garro

        Description   Cuadernos de Elena Garro Collection. Author of dozens of books, Elena Garro was a prolific writer who left in her archive several unpublished works in the genres of theater, short stories, novels, film plots, as well as essays and annotations.Ediciones del Lirio has maintained a close collaboration with the Mexican author's heirs, so we have been able to collect various unpublished materials (short stories, plays and novels), which we have decided to gather and publish under the collection called Cuadernos de Elena Garro, dedicated to compile the unpublished texts of the author of Los recuerdos del porvenir.   Sinopsis   Colección Cuadernos de Elena Garro. Autora de decenas de libros, Elena Garro fue una escritura prolífica quien dejó en su archivo diversas obras inéditas en los géneros de teatro, cuento, novela, argumentos cinematográficos, así como ensayos y anotaciones.Ediciones del Lirio ha mantenido una estrecha colaboración con los herederos patrimoniales de la autora mexicana, por lo que hemos podido recabar diversos materiales inéditos (cuento, teatro y novela), los cuales, hemos decidido reunir y publicar bajo la colección llamada Cuadernos de Elena Garro, dedicada a recopilar los textos inéditos de la autora de Los recuerdos del porvenir.

      • Relatos recobrados de Elena Garro

        "Nunca mates a nadie" y "Siempre hay dos ojos que te ven"

        by Elena Garro

        Description   Considered one of the most outstanding writers in the Spanish language, Elena Garro (1916-1998) was a prolific author who left in her archive several unpublished plays, short stories, novels, film plots, as well as essays, articles and annotations for future projects. Now, Ediciones del Lirio, in co-publication with the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), has brought together various never-before-published materials by the Mexican author, to gather them in the Cuadernos de Elena collection. In this first volume, Relatos recogidos, readers will be able to read three stories that were found in Garro's archive and that today see the light for the first time: "Nunca mates a nadie, siempre hay dos ojos que te ven", "Martín" and "Katrin y María", which are set in an urban environment, where intra-family relationships show their complexities that go from happiness to violence and from there to frenzy, without losing the tension with the geopolitical context of the moment. In these texts we can recognize characters and situations similar to those narrated by Elena Garro in other texts.Elena Garro narrated in other of her books, but also stories that will reveal a new face of the author of Los recuerdos del porvenir.   Sinopsis   Considerada una de las escritoras más sobresalientes en habla hispana, Elena Garro (1916-1998) fue una autora prolífica quien dejó en su archivo diversas obras inéditas de teatro, relatos, novelas, argumentos cinematográficos, así como ensayos, artículos y anotaciones para futuros proyectos. Ahora, Ediciones del Lirio, en coedición con la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), han recabado diversos materiales nunca antes publicados de la autora mexicana, para reunirlos en la colección Cuadernos de Elena. En este primer tomo, Relatos recogidos, los lectores podrán leer tres historias que se encontraron en el archivo de Garro y que hoy ven la luz por primera vez: se trata de “Nunca mates a nadie, siempre hay dos ojos que te ven”, “Martín” y“Katrin y María”, las cuales se sitúan en un ambiente urbano, en donde las relaciones intrafamiliares muestran sus complejidades que van de la felicidad a la violencia y de ahí al frenesí, sin perder la tensión con el contexto geopolítico del momento. En estos textos se podrán reconocer personajes y situaciones parecidas a las queElena Garro narró en otros de sus libros, pero también historias que revelarán un nuevo rostro de la autora de Los recuerdos del porvenir.

      • Literature & Literary Studies

        El faro

        by Felipe González A.

        La desaparición de su primo Rodrigo a los pies del faro de Playa Ancha guía los recuerdos fragmentados de un estudiante universitario de Valparaíso: sus amores inciertos y relaciones ambiguas siguen la hebra de la memoria de un suicidio sospechoso o un asesinato que nunca se pudo probar. Años más tarde, el pasado revela un lado luminoso y conocido, pero también uno oscuro y misterioso, como la intermitencia de un faro con el que se intenta alumbrar los hechos ocurridos. Esta novela, escrita con una prosa limpia y emotiva, ganó el primer premio de los Juegos Literarios Gabriela Mistral el año 2019.

      • August 2014

        Lxs artesanxs libertarixs

        Y la ética del trabajo

        by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui y Zulema Lehm Ardaya

        El trabajo que aquí presentamos está basado en las vivencias, recuerdos y reflexiones de un puñado de hombres y mujeres cuyas trayectorias personales se enraízan en una fase crucial para el despertar organizativo de la clase trabajadora en bolivia: la década de 1920. Tomados en conjunto, los relatos cubren un período que va desde principios de siglo hasta la década de 1950, llegando en algunos casos a proyectarse hasta el presente. Esta amplia trama temporal está cruzada por distintos hilos argumentales, en los que frecuentemente se entremezclan la narración histórica, la reflexión ética y la discusión doctrinaria. El resultado está presentado en forma de un montaje, en el cual la ordenación temática, de carácter reflexivo, ha primado sobre la reconstrucción estrictamente histórica o cronológica. Nos dimos cuenta de que el proceso de investigación había generado uno de sus frutos más valiosos: tras muchos años de incomunicación y aislamiento entre los compañeros, y luego de prolongadas sesiones de trabajo en las que la brecha generacional se iba cerrando, habíamos conseguido, entre todos, revalorizar la experiencia vivida y construir un sujeto colectivo, pleno de dinamismo y actividad reflexiva, en el que las fronteras entre “investigadores” e “investigados” comenzaban a difuminarse.

      • September 2027

        Las cuatro Paolinas Polinsky

        by Becky Rubinstein

        Description   Las Cuatro Paolinas Polinsky is a story that takes place in the Mexican Bajío, in the times of the poet Ramón López Velarde. This book narrates the adventures and lives of four generations of women whose existence takes place between the Porfiriato and post-revolutionary Mexico, whose physical and spiritual landscapes become extraordinary in after-dinner chats, in the interpretation of dreams, in poetry readings and mare trot journeys that mark not only the transit of the Polinskys, but of the entire country. The time of this story is marked by the memories of the Paolinas' ancestors, re-presented in the voice and stews of Doña Clementina and through the writing of Don Ramiro's Almanaque. In this novel, Becky Rubinstein recreates a beautiful provincial Mexico, but also a convulsive nation, full of fantastic characters that inhabit every corner and town in the interior of the country; A Mexico that has apparently vanished, but that survives in family stories and in the verses of López Velarde, in that soft homeland that not only saw the arrival of modernity, the train and the iron and concrete palaces, but also a violent social revolution that transformed everyone's walk on trotting roads, and later, on stumbling avenues infested by motorized vehicles. Welcome to this journey through time to recognize ourselves in the faces of each of the four Paolinas Polinsky.     Sinopsis Las Cuatro Paolinas Polinsky es una historia que ocurre en el bajío mexicano, en tiempos del poeta Ramón López Velarde. Este libro narra las aventuras y la vida de cuatro generaciones de mujeres cuya existencia transcurre entre el porfiriato y el México posrevolucionario, cuyos paisajes físicos y espirituales se vuelven extraordinarios en charlas de sobremesa, en la interpretación de los sueños, en lecturas de poemarios y enrecorridos a trote de yegua que van marcando no sólo el tránsito de las Polinsky, sino del país entero. El tiempo de esta historia lo pautan los recuerdos de los ancestros de las Paolinas, re-presentados en la voz y los guisos  de doña Clementina y a través de la escritura del Almanaque de don Ramiro. En esta novela, Becky Rubinstein, recrea un hermoso México provincial, pero también una nación convulsa, llena de personajes fantásticos que habitan en todos los rincones y pueblos del interior del país; un México que en apariencia se ha esfumado, pero que sobrevive en los relatos familiares y en los versos de López Velarde, en esa suave patria que no sólo vio la llegada de la modernidad, del tren y los palacios de hierro y concreto, sino también una violenta revolución social que transformó el andar de todos sobre caminos al trote, y después, sobre tropezadas avenidas infestadas por vehículos motorizados. Bienvenidos a este viaje por el tiempo para reconocernos en los rostros de cada una de la cuatro Paolinas Polinsky.

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