Almadia Ediciones SA Promotora de Inversion de Capital
11 Mars 2025
9786072631052
Los ensayos de este libro trazan su andar por instantes solitarios, experiencias compartidas y paisajes naturales que nos convidan a seguir las huellas de la imaginacion y la escritura, divididos en tres momentos: la quietud, la caminata y la siembra. Selva Almada nos lleva a su retiro semirrural en Argentina, donde la naturaleza y el silencio le dan sentido al entorno y a su relacion con las palabras. Juan Pablo Villalobos descubre en un arbol visible desde su ventana en Barcelona un simbolo del paso del tiempo y la resistencia, metafora de su propia forma de concebir la escritura. Cristina Rivera Garza invita al lector a caminar con ella por los bosques, parques y jardines de Houston, para mostrarnos que Deambular otra vez es un acto de descubrimiento, un encuentro constante con el mundo, la imaginacion y el lenguaje.
Drei Männer, die zum Angeln fahren und mit den Bewohnern im benachbarten Ort beim abendlichen Tanzfest fast tödlich aneinander geraten. Warum ? Männersachen ? Frauen geschichten ? Dahinter verbirgt sich viel mehr, und auch deshalb ist das dunkle Wasser nicht nur ein Fluss, aus dem riesige Rochen gefischt werden und in dem Männer verschwinden. Die Argentinierin Selva Almada erzählt eine wilde Geschichte, in der vieles mitgeteilt und vielsagend verschwiegen wird. Niemand versteht es, die verhängnisvolle Männerwelt Lateinamerikas mit solch zarter Wucht zu beschwören, wie diese unvergleichliche Autorin.
Con este libro nos vamos a dar cuenta de que no hay una definición única. Están quienes fusionan sus bibliotecas al casarse y quienes, al irse a convivir con otra persona, prefieren mantenerlas separadas. También hay bibliotecas "inmateriales": libros leídos pero no acumulados, desperdigados por el universo. Y por qué no, bibliotecas separadas: una en Buenos Aires y otra en Rosario. ¿Obsesión por el orden, clasificación de las obras por género? ¿Libros que se prestan?
Weit, trocken und öde ist die Pampa. Wer hier liegen bleibt, für den ist guter Rat teuer. Auch für Menschen mit direktem Draht zu Gott, wie den Prediger samt schlecht gelaunter Tochter und übler Familiengeschichte, dessen Wagen den Geist aufgibt. Zum Glück auf dem Schrottplatz eines alten Gringo, der im Verlauf eines Tages und einer Nacht nicht nur das Auto repariert. Umtost von einem nächtlichen Unwetter trägt er mit seinem ungebetenen Gast einen Zweikampf aus, während sich zwischen seinem schweigsamen Sohn und der Tochter des Gottesmannes ganz andere Beziehungen anbahnen. Ein Roman aus Argentinien – klar und trocken wie die Gegend, in der er spielt, geschrieben in einer lakonischen, wunderbar unverputzten Prosa.
Author of International Booker Finalist Not a RiverInternationally acclaimed author of Not a River , Selva Almada tackles the issue of gender violence in this hybrid work that follows in the tradition of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood or John Hersey's Hiroshima .Evoking with intimate first-hand knowledge the heat and dust of provincial Argentina, with all its secrets and conflicting loyalties, Almada tells the stories of three young women murdered in the early 1980s, as the country was celebrating its return to democracy. Three deaths that were never brought to justice and occurred long before the term 'femicide' became widely known: nineteen-year-old Andrea Danne, stabbed in her own bed; fifteen-year-old Maria Luisa Quevedo, raped, strangled, and dumped in wasteland; and twenty-year-old Sarita Mundin, whose disfigured body washed up on a river bank. In this brutal yet deeply important book, Selva Almada weaves these and other cases of violence against women into a clear-eyed, multi-faceted portrait that has global resonance.This is not a police chronicle, although there is an investigation. This is not a thriller, although there is mystery and suspense. Hard-hitting and lyrical, Almada blazes a new trail in journalistic fiction.
Author of International Booker Finalist Not a RiverTwo young men, Pajaro Tamai and Marciano Miranda, are dying in a deserted amusement park. The story begins almost at its end, just after the two main characters have faced off in a knife fight: the culmination of a rivalry that has pitted them against one another since childhood. The present in Brickmakers is a state of impending death, at moments marked by dream-like visions: Marciano is visited by the ghost of his father, who was murdered when he was a teenager, a father he had sworn to avenge, in a promise he could not keep. Pajaro is also visited, in a recurring nightmare, by his abusive father who disappeared years earlier.Narrated with fury and passion, reminiscent of William Faulkner or Katherine Anne Porter, Brickmakers is a rural tragedy in the great American tradition, a story of love, honour and violence where everything is at stake. Reprising the powerful imagery and the filmic landscape of The Wind That Lays Waste, and the threatening atmosphere of Dead Girls, Brickmakers is yet another proof of Almada's extraordinary talent.
* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE *It's not a river, it's this river.A hot, motionless afternoon. Enero and El Negro are fishing with Tilo, their dead friend's teenage son. After hours of struggling with a hooked stingray, Enero aims his revolver into the water and shoots it. They hang the ray's enormous corpse from a tree at their campsite and let it go to rot, drawing the attention of some local islanders and igniting a long-simmering fury toward outsiders and their carelessness. It's only the two sisters-the teenage nieces of one of the locals, Aguirre-with their hair black as cowbird feathers and giving off the scent of green grass, who are curious about the trio and invite them to a dance. But the girls are not quite as they seem. As night approaches and tensions rise, Enero and El Negro return to the charged memories of their friend who years ago drowned in this same river.As uneasy and saturated as a prophetic dream, Not a River is another extraordinary novel by Selva Almada about masculinity, guilt, and irrepressible desire, written in a style that is spare and timeless.
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024Three men go out fishing, returning to a favourite spot on the river despite their memories of a terrible accident there years earlier. As a long, sultry day passes, they drink and cook and talk and dance, and try to overcome the ghosts of their past. But they are outsiders, and this intimate, peculiar moment also puts them at odds with the inhabitants of this watery universe, both human and otherwise. The forest presses close, and violence seems inevitable, but can another tragedy be avoided?Rippling across time like the river that runs through it, Selva Almada's latest novel is the finest expression yet of her compelling style and singular vision of rural Argentina.One of the Best Books of 2020 in Clarin and La NacionShortlisted for the Mario Vargas Llosa Novel Prize
Leni crossed her arms, said nothing, and watched the fight unfold. She was like a bored onlooker at a boxing trial, wasting no energy on the undercard, saving her passion for the moment when the real champions would step into the ring. And yet, at some point, she began to cry. Just tears, without any sound. Water falling from her eyes as water was falling from the sky. Rain disappearing into rain.The Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is an evangelist preaching the word of God across northern Argentina with Leni, his teenage daughter, in tow. When their car breaks down, fate leads them to the workshop of an ageing mechanic, Gringo Brauer, and his assistant, a boy called Tapioca. Over the course of a long day, curiosity and a sense of new opportunities develop into an unexpected intimacy. Yet this encounter between a man convinced of his righteousness and one mired in cynicism and apathy will become a battle for the very souls of the young pair: the quietly earnest and idealistic mechanic’s assistant, and the restless, sceptical preacher’s daughter. As tensions among the four ebb and flow, beliefs are questioned and allegiances tested, until finally the growing storm breaks over the plains.International Booker Prize-nominated Selva Almada’s exquisitely crafted debut, with its limpid and confident prose, is profound and poetic, a near-tangible experience of the landscape amid the hot winds, wrecked cars, sweat-stained shirts and damaged lives, told with the cinematic precision of a static road movie, like a Paris, Texas of the south. With echoes of Carson McCullers, The Wind That Lays Waste is a contemplative and powerfully distinctive novel.
A piercing and passionate novel, set in rural Argentina, about violence and masculinityOscar Tamai and Elvio Miranda, the patriarchs of two families of brickmakers, have for years nursed a mutual hatred, but their teenage sons, Pajaro and Angelito, somehow fell in love. Brickmakers begins as Pajaro and Marciano, Angelito's older brother, lie dying in the mud at the base of a Ferris wheel. Inhabiting a dreamlike state between life and death, they recall the events that forced them to pay the price of their fathers' petty feud.The Tamai and Miranda f-amilies are caught, like the Capulets and the Montagues, in an almost mythic conflict, one that emerges from stubborn pride and intractable machismo. Like her heralded debut, The Wind That Lays Waste, Selva Almada's fierce and tender second novel is an unforgettable portrayal of characters who initially seem to stand in opposition, but are ultimately revealed to be bound by their similarities.Almada enlarges the tradition of some of the most distinctive prose stylists of our time. In Brickmakers, she furthers her extraordinary exploration of masculinity and the realities of working-class rural life. This is another exquisitely written and powerfully told story by a major international voice.
A taut, lyrical portrait of four people thrown together on a single day in rural ArgentinaThe Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is evangelizing across the Argentinian countryside with Leni, his teenage daughter, when their car breaks down. This act of God or fate leads them to the workshop and home of an aging mechanic called Gringo Brauer and a young boy named Tapioca.As a long day passes, curiosity and intrigue transform into an unexpected intimacy between four people: one man who believes deeply in God, morality, and his own righteousness, and another whose life experiences have only entrenched his moral relativism and mild apathy; a quietly earnest and idealistic mechanic's assistant, and a restless, skeptical preacher's daughter. As tensions between these characters ebb and flow, beliefs are questioned and allegiances are tested, until finally the growing storm breaks over the plains.Selva Almada's exquisitely crafted debut, with its limpid and confident prose, is profound and poetic, a tactile experience of the mountain, the sun, the squat trees, the broken cars, the sweat-stained shirts, and the destroyed lives. The Wind That Lays Waste is a philosophical, beautiful, and powerfully distinctive novel that marks the arrival in English of an author whose talent and poise are undeniable.
