Editorial Periférica
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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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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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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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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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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: 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: 9788492865802
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: 9788492865406
Papi
An excited girl waits for her father, a Dominican gangster whom she idolizes and who always arrives without warning, like monsters in horror movies. Daddy appears, disappears and reappears, loaded with dollars and endless cars, girlfriends and gifts. He embodies, as the critic Juan Duchesne Winter h..
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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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Season of the Swamp
This book imagines a hypothesis: what happened during the year and a half in which Benito Juárez, who would end up being the first indigenous president of Mexico, lived in exile in New Orleans? Accompanied by a small group of political exiles, Juárez landed in 1853 in that stinking city that, locate..
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Signs Preceding the End of the World
Signs Preceding the End of the World is, without a doubt, one of the most unique novels of all those that have been written in Spanish at this turn of the century. Yuri Herrera does not write "simply" about Mexico and the border, but rather creates his Mexico through stories and legends of the past ..
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Asmodeus
Asmodeo, a millennia-old demon with dwindling powers, abandons the body of the middle-aged rocker he has inhabited for decades in search of a younger host. In this tumultuous journey, which causes the unfortunate Asmodeo to bounce from one host to another, a complex plot unfolds, immersing us in the..
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