Textofilia Ediciones
Literary publisher. It has received several awards. It has the stamp Libros del Marqués, dedicated to social relevant topics of this time.
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The Text Publishing Company Pty. Ltd.
At Text we want to publish books that make a difference to people’s lives. We believe that reading should be a marvellous experience, that every book you read should somehow change your life if only by a fraction. We love the phrase ‘lost in a book’—that’s where we want our readers to be. You can’t get lost in a newspaper or a magazine or even a movie. But people get lost in books every day—on the tram, on the beach, in bed. Reading is what keeps the imagination supple and challenges preconceptions and prejudices. You read at your own speed, and the world you enter courtesy of the writer is yours and yours only, even if the person next to you on the bus is reading exactly the same book. We publish a very broad range of fiction and non-fiction, international and local, books for adults and young adults.
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August 2020Gorilas en el techo
by Karake, Karen
That afternoon a teacher shouted: Gorillas on the roof! Karen didn't know whether to cry or run; nor did she know that her life was about to crumble like bread crumbs. Soon after, her parents announced that the family was moving. Whaaaat? Her hair stood on end. Leaving school, friends, grandparents and her beloved Guatemala was much worse than if ten apes had jumped on her. But Karen's real tragedy begins when she arrives in another country that she can't even locate on a map, thousands of miles away from her own, with a language that not even Dad understands and, as if that weren't enough, with new classmates who look at her like a freak. She has two options: to lock herself in her shell or to go out and squeeze the lemons that life offers her. With a spontaneous, sharp, funny and agile language, the protagonist tells us her adventures and misfortunes to adapt to Israel and her violent environment, because, although it seems a joke, they flee from Guatemala because of the violence and arrive to a country in war. However, Karen will also discover the surprise of the first kiss, the power of friendship and how wonderful life can be, even though it is not always free of pain. Gorillas on the Roof, immerses us with great talent and in a simple way in deep and sometimes complicated issues such as intolerance, violence, death, awakening to sexuality and hope for a peaceful world where we all fit
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February 2020
El hierro y la pólvora
by Jorge Galván
On his deathbed, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, one of the Spanish soldiers who accompanied Hernán Cortés in the discovery and conquest of Mexico, gives an account of his life, the vicissitudes and hardships he experienced during his stay in the Indies and, above all, during the wars against the ineffable empire of Moctezuma. In narrating the sufferings suffered on this side of the world, the protagonist reveals himself as a suffering being; full of rancor and hatred toward the Crown but, above all, toward Cortés, whom he does not hesitate to call Captain of Death. Articulated around the vicissitudes of the Conquest of Mexico-Tenochtitlan and the deep distortion of the historical fact by Bernal and his amanuensis -Rustichello's Renaissance-, the narrative is enriched by the voices, sometimes dissonant, of the conqueror's mother and wife
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December 2019
La duquesa de Escobedo
by Sergio Telles
Here's something that, with a wink of eyelashes full of chaquira seduces us. Just as this book seduces us. And the lives shown in the narrative poems, or poetic stories, that appear here. Sergio Telles, with his work, stands before our eyes with a parade of characters out of the ordinary: homosexuals, thieves, transsexuals, prostitutes, drug addicts, mythomaniacs Telles forces us to see. It forces us to feel. It forces us to accept that, naked, we are all the same and looking for the same thing. Telles elegantly handles every word that leads us to the deepest decay. In this lies its literary value, in the dichotomies: the more beautiful, the more pain is shown and the greater the decay.
