Editorial Periférica
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Cherry
Who saw it coming? is one of the fundamental questions of this book. A question about the past and the future, about identity and about that time of naivety and rebellion that is adolescence. Who are we at twelve years old? And at sixteen? Who do we hope to be and what do we become? And even more co..
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Em
Emma-Jade and Louis are born into the havoc of the Vietnam War. Orphaned, saved and cared for by adults coping with the chaos of Saigon in free-fall, they become children of the Vietnamese diaspora. Em is not a romance in any usual sense of the word, but it is a word whose homonym—aimer, to love—res..
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EAN: 9788416291915
Ten Planets
The characters in Ten Planets inhabit an unimaginable future that invites us to doubt the tools with which we calibrate our closest world: an earthling exiled in an unlikely corner of the galaxy makes a discovery that forces him to rethink his categories of species; a house rebels against the unhapp..
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EAN: 9788418838828
Solitude of Self
In 1892 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffragist, abolitionist and pioneer in the fight for women's rights, wrote a deeply feminist and existentialist speech in which she defended the full autonomy of women based precisely on the immeasurable and radical loneliness of all humans. Denying women a good prep..
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Love
A young prostitute walks through a nocturnal city with imprecise boundaries, perhaps Tel Aviv. She calls herself Libby, "my heart" in Hebrew. She gets in and out of cars with laconic drivers and shares moments of humor and sisterhood with other sex workers. Her life is like a dream that happens to a..
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Names and Animals
Dynamiting magical realism from the base, but nourishing, in a certain sense, its absolute freedom of fiction, the Dominican writer Rita Indiana builds in this prodigious novel, which surpasses the achievements of her previous book, Papi (Periférica, 2011), an edifice narrative governed by an endear..
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EAN: 9788418264849
Everything Under
Gretel, the thirty-something protagonist of this fascinating and at times disturbing novel, reunites with her mother, Sarah, who now suffers from Alzheimer's, sixteen years after she abandoned her. Gretel is a lexicographer and makes a living updating dictionary entries, so she knows well that words..
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EAN: 9788418838712
Rombo
In Rombo, a word that designates the dark roar that the earth makes when it trembles, nature and oral history intertwine to illuminate a vibrant story about the effects, both physical and psychological, of natural disasters. In May and September 1976, two earthquakes devastated northeast Italy and c..
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EAN: 9788416291083
Tentacle
Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart of a voodoo prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the ocean – and humanity – from disaster. But first she must become the man she always was – with the help of ..
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Kingdom Cons
Yuri Herrera stands out with his first book, Works of the Kingdom, in which, through the eyes of a composer, he unfolds before the reader a panorama of the palace life of a drug trafficking cartel. Lobo, protagonist and narrator of the novel, is a marginalized being since his birth. He has no educat..
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A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mi
On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compañía de Santa Gertrudis―the largest employer in the region, and a subsidiary of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company―may have committed murder. The alert was first raised at six in the morning: a fire was tearing through the El Bordo ..
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Women's Prison
On April 14, 1955, at the luxurious Crillon hotel in Santiago, Chile, the writer María Carolina Geel shot her lover several times and killed him instantly. The reasons were never known (there were those who said it was out of jealousy; others, an extravagant way to gain notoriety). The crime was not..
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