El asedio animal
Vanessa Londoño
NOVEL | 2021 | 120 pages
In Hukuméji, near the Don Diego river and the Caribbean Sea, a torrential rain awakens its inhabitants' memories as landslides wash houses and corpses away. In this northern Colombian town, human bodies experience pleasure and desire, but this is also the place where the horrors of violence mark the most brutal and permanent punishments. The protagonists in these stories have had something taken from them: their loved ones, their legs, or their land. But even while feeling the presence of their missing pieces in their bones, they strive to remember their histories while looking for other ways to communicate, love, and continue living.
With prose that is as crude as it is fascinating, Vanessa Londoño writes about the mutilated body as a way to explain loss, as a path to evoke empathy, and, through this shared language of joy and carnal pain, as a way to understand the absence, pain, death, dispossession, injustice, and brutality that those in power intend to use in order to control the landscape, pain, and desire in a land of violence.
RIGHTS: spanish ALMADÍA | spanish (argentina, chile, uruguay, paraguay, bolivia, peru) ETERNA CADENCIA | spanish (colombia) TUSQUETS / PLANETA | portuguese (brazil) EDITORA PEABIRU | italian ALESSANDRO POLIDORO EDITORE | french MÉMOIRE D’ENCRIER | spanish audio STORYTEL
BY VANESSA LONDOÑO:
El asedio animal
NOVEL, 2021