Fiordo Editorial
Fiordo is a publishing house based in Buenos Aires that publishes fiction and non-fiction in paper, electronic and audiobook format in Spanish throughout the world.
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Fiordo Editorial
Founded in 2012 in Buenos Aires, Fiordo publishes literary fiction and nonfiction in print, digital and audiobook format in Spanish throughout the world, for readers who appreciate thoughtful editions and good design.
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Fiction2015Pantalones azules
by Sara Gallardo
Pantalones azules is a novel with a deceptively simple appearance. As Leopoldo Brizuela has noted, fifty years after its first publication, it "reveals itself as the recounting of a process infinitely more subtle" than an impossible love affair, which was the key interpretation by its contemporaries. On the contrary, Pantalones azules is a story of multiple disillusionments: those of Alejandro, the young protagonist from a well-to-do family, Catholic and anti-Semitic, who encounters the limits of his convictions upon meeting Irma, an immigrant with a Jewish mother who lost her parents in the European war; those of Irma, who receives not compassion but the inhuman brutality of Alejandro’s convictions; and those of Elisa, Alejandro’s virgin fiancée, who must decide her position within the patriarchal family structure and whether to accept her role as a future wife subjected to the tacit violence of her fiancé. But more than a story of love and disillusionment, Pantalones azules is a prodigious representation, for its freshness and vitality, of the distances that separate social groups, cultures, generations, and genders within the same time and place. A prime example of Sara Gallardo’s extraordinary ability to bring her characters to life with wisdom, humor, a touch of malice, and a surprising economy of resources, this second novel by the author also broadens her perspective on the landscape: the countryside, the city, and the river are depicted here with unusual accuracy, possible only for someone who has experienced landscape and language as a unique amalgam, a defining characteristic of her works. First published in 1963, Pantalones azules has circulated only minimally since then. Fiordo is proud to bring this superb novel by one of Argentina’s greatest writers back to readers.
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2020La rosa en el viento
by Sara Gallardo
"The rose that is destroyed in the wind lets its petals fly in a burned light," says this hallucinatory novel by Sara Gallardo, her latest publication, an extraordinary culmination for a dazzling, always precise, always unique, always captivating body of work. In La rosa en el viento, all the characters move, embarking on journeys that are sometimes physical and sometimes emotional, but in every case, they take them far from whom they were at the beginning. Olaf, a Swedish immigrant who has escaped a terrible episode in Italy, becomes a sheep breeder in Patagonia alongside Andrei, a Russian journalist who, in turn, seeks to win over an unconquerable woman, whose story reaches us in flashes, much like that of Oo, the Indian woman bought by Andrei, or Lina, who follows Andrei south, and Olga, who two generations earlier followed Alexis the revolutionary to an America that, for these characters, is both a land of promises and forgotten dreams that never truly materialize. Kaleidoscopic, polyphonic, synthetic, and modern, La rosa en el viento brings together all of Sara Gallardo's talent for storytelling and emotional impact, and it demands that we read it again.
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2024Los galgos, los galgos
by Sara Gallardo
There are beginnings in literature that encapsulate in a few words the entire conflict and grandeur of a work. Thus begins Los galgos, los galgos: “From my father, I inherited a house, half a field, and some money. I cried a lot over his death, but I can’t say that the inheritance took me by surprise. Sitting in the morning light, toward the end of the wake, I suggested to my brother that I would exchange my house for his part of the field, and as he immediately agreed and I had to sign a lot of papers, I realized I had made a bad deal.” These are the words of Julián, the protagonist and narrator of this novel, which can certainly be read as a story of love and heartbreak, but is so much more: an essay on the erosion of our convictions by time, a subtle commentary on the customs and practices of a class, and the impact of those customs and practices on certain fantasies and dissatisfaction, as well as a representation of the countryside, animals and plants like no other in Argentine literature. First published in 1968, Los galgos, los galgos won the Municipal Literature Prize and is considered a major work within Sara Gallardo’s extraordinary oeuvre. Written in a state of grace, infused with a melancholic sense of fatality but imbued with intelligent and refined humor, this is a novel that leaves an indelible mark, profound admiration, and eternal sorrow.
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Food & Drink2022El viento entre los pinos
Un ensayo acerca del camino del té
by Malena Higashi, Nicolás Stimolo
If learning to prepare tea takes a lifetime, what is truly learned in the process? That is the question that surrounds El viento entre los pinos, Japanese-style: without offering an answer, through anecdotes, poems, and reflections that bring the tea ceremony—one of the most exquisite disciplines of Japanese culture—closer to everyday life. Tasks such as purifying the utensils, arranging flowers, preparing the charcoal, and heating the water appear, in the author's words, as a genuine meditation in motion, inviting us to pause in the present and appreciate our surroundings with all our senses.
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Fiction2024La ficción del ahorro
by Carmen M. Cáceres
Posadas, summer of 2001. A twenty-year-old girl returns from Buenos Aires to her family home to help withdraw a sum of American dollars from a bank safe deposit box. These are the savings of her mother and her second father. Against the backdrop of Argentina’s crisis and growing social unrest, battling the heat and immersed in the provincial rhythm, her return to her hometown awakens a stream of speculations about money and family, the past and the future, wealth and poverty, the Capital and the provinces. As the narrative progresses with the relentless pace of a powerful river, the current settles into lucid observations alongside a touch of humor and a subtle irony about Argentina's cyclical crises, making this novel a revealing, immensely enjoyable read—almost a catharsis or an epiphany.
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2022Al borde de la boca
Diez intuiciones en torno al mate
by Carmen M. Cáceres
Many books have been written about mate—its properties, benefits, history, and ritual. Al borde de la boca, however, intuits what none of those books consider: the firsthand experience of drinking mate. It is an experience of both body and mind, better evoked through literature than through scientific vocabulary. Sensitive and precise, this essay captures that experience and puts it into words without ever exhausting its private, personal dimension.
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2017El lugar donde mueren los pájaros
by Tomás Downey
El lugar donde mueren los pájaros brings together ten short stories by Tomás Downey, winner of the first prize at the Fondo Nacional de las Artes Letras Competition in 2013 and a finalist in 2016 for the Gabriel García Márquez Hispano-American Prize for his acclaimed first collection of stories, Acá el tiempo es otra cosa. The protagonists of these stories live on the edge of personal abyss, that place where the extraordinary can happen. Three pre-adolescent sisters carry out a fateful ritual. A data analyst decides to leave her baby on a balcony to better focus on her spreadsheets. A woman obsessed with her afternoon soap opera begins to hear a buzzing coming from her television. Beings from another planet, the Täkis, arrive on Earth and mesmerize the population. An authoritarian grandfather reveals his weakness during a visit with his grandson to a barbershop. Two bored girls spending their summer with their parents on the coast find in the place where birds die a unique source of distraction. A collection of stories about fragile balances and relationships stretched to the limit, El lugar donde mueren los pájaros reveals the inadvertently sinister underside of mundane everyday situations. In this much-anticipated second collection of stories, Downey confirms himself as a bold writer, adept at masterfully sliding from realism to the fantastic, with a unique voice.
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Fiction2021Jaulagrande
by Guadalupe Faraj
"Jaulagrande. Nobody wants to go." This is the sentence with which Jaulagrande begins. Yet, there they go: a military officer who has lost his honor, his wife, weary from years of loyalty, and a son on the brink of adolescence for whom the world is, above all, a great question. Jaulagrande is a military base where the sun fades, geese rejuvenate by eating garbage, and everyone finds their fate, even if that fate is nothing more than a final period. What happens there defies conventional norms but is bound by tacit laws that Guadalupe Faraj skillfully establishes as another possible logic. With a thick atmosphere and a rhythm that is neither excessive nor lacking, Jaulagrande is a sharp, tender, precise, and, above all, penetrating novel.
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Fiction2021Flores que se abren de noche
by Tomás Downey
Flores que se abren de noche exerts a unique influence. Like a subtle change in light, it shifts the coordinates of time and space, transporting us to a seemingly familiar yet parallel reality. What happens between two young cousins who live in the Delta and one day discover they are not cousins? Can a CET teach us to be better people? What would we do if we could bring a deceased child back to life? Can human beings be pets? This book does not provide answers but rather presents stories that are also small novels, prompting us to ask profound questions and discover that what defines a time and place is not what we see or know. In Flores que se abren de noche, his long-awaited third book, Tomás Downey activates his great imagination with an eloquent and precise style that makes this collection of stories a magnetic work.
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2023Dios duerme en la piedra
by Mike Wilson
A solitary transhumant travels with his horse through wild deserts in search of vengeance and redemption. He carries with him a rifle, pumpkin seeds, and a leather jug filled with water. Troubled by the dark traces of his former life, the hero of Dios duerme en la piedra wanders annihilating bandits and having chance encounters with apathetic nomads decimated by a ruthless itinerant sect. Although he wishes not to retrace his steps, the territory and these encounters will merge into a series of adventures, eventually plunging him into a vortex of ruin and recognition from which he can only escape with the advent of the end of times. In the vein of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian or J. G. Ballard’s apocalyptic narratives, Mike Wilson unfolds in this hallucinatory novel a universe with a language that is entirely his own.
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Geography & the EnvironmentNovember 2021Shout out what is silenced
A young eco-social activist gives voice to what the Climate Summits silence.
by Alejandro Quecedo del Val, Marina Garcés
"Alejandro Quecedo del Val points to the need for a reform of being and feeling that connects us again with nature." - foreword by Marina Garcés Gritar lo que está callado (Shout out what is silenced) is written by a 19-year-old who has attended climate summits representing Spain. It is not just another book about climate change, it is a book that reveals what is on the fringes of the climate summits, what prevents the fight against climate change from progressing. The invited and silenced young people are the example of the smoke screens that are created in the information of the disaster, for example with the Greta Thunberg phenomenon. Under the slogan Uniting the world to tackle climate change, the next United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) — held in Glasgow (United Kingdom) from November 1 to 12, 2021— brought together representatives of around 200 governments with the aim of accelerating climate action to comply with the Paris Agreement. In a recent article, Alejandro Quecedo pointed to the disappointment of a large part of the activist sector, after learning about the withdrawal of permits and funding for citizen and scientific initiatives, with the excuse of not "excessively politicizing the summit", a fact to which was added the leak to the media that certain lobbies had pressed to amend the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in order to deny the evidence of an increasingly imminent catastrophe and blind public opinion with half-truths, sweetened. The author has been interviewed by the most important media in Spain, all interested in his position: to ask for a change of sensitivity in order to stop the eco-social crisis.
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FictionApril 2018Valkirias
Las hijas del Norte
by I. Biggi
THE CERROS DE ÚBEDA AWARD 2019 FOR BEST HISTORICAL NOVEL. VIKINGS AT IBERIAN PENINSULA 859 A. C. Viking drakars are moving to Seville, one of the richest cities all around the world. Their objective: raze and loot it. However, expedition will be an outright failure - warriors of the north will be captured and the governor of the city will demand a large rescue for the. But, when that news reaches their village, women decide not to give up and, together with some children and slaves, they hire a small group of mercenaries to teach them how to fight. A year later, the rescue expedition will be ready. It seems an impossible mission, and, from the beginning, it will be fraught with setbacks. I. Biggi make us to fly back to past, to Vikings world, in a so fast narrative as well as his exhaustive knowledge of the period. In that way, Valkirias is an adventure novel that shows us the most human side of a civilization as dazzling as terrifying. NEXT AUTHOR’S PUBLICATION: OCTOBER 2020: MOISE’S PROJECT: In 1945 allied troops are about to invade European continente. In London, Military High Command receives the strange visit of an exiled Spanish professor, a man who has been fighting for the Republica during Spanish Civil War.
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PENGUINS AT THE EQUATOR
not everything you hear on climate is true
by LUCA PERRI, SERENA GIACOMIN
From one of the most famous astrophysicist on the Web and a meteorologist from the Epson Meteo Center, an exhilarating guide to uncovering climate-related hoaxes.We are in May, in New York it freezes. Global warming, where the hell are you? this tweet by Donald Trump is just one of the many blunders of the US president, victim of a great confusion between global warming and weather. But Donald is not the only one who has unclear ideas on the subject: just open Facebook to come across hundreds of denial theories. Luca Perri and Serena Giacomin collect the best climatic lies, and then disassemble them in this book which blends laughters and sciencee theory of the Second Punic War stands out among the most famous of them: “ere was no snow on Hannibal’s Alps, this explains the crossing with elephants”. If the authors of similar posts had bothered to read the version of Tito Livio (1st century BC), they would at least have had discovered that maybe there was some ice on the mountains, and how in fact, the Carthaginian pachyderms died of cold.From sunspots to the displacement of the Earth’s axis, from legends about Greenland, to the alleged benaects of the increase in CO2, an astrophysicist and atmospheric phht together to combat functional illiteracy
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Crime & mystery fiction (Children's/YA)2009Mystery in the Camp
by Beatriz García-Huidobro
The follow up of the adventures of Diego and his friends. This time the mystery moves to a camp located in the Andes mountains. There, the stories of suspense are intertwined and will keep the readers' interest.
