La sed / Thirst
by Yuszczuk, MarinaDescription
En dos ?pocas distintas, dos mujeres enfrentan miedos, soledad, mortalidad y un anhelo inquietante que no les permite descansar. Una novela disruptiva que borra los l?mites del g?nero, de manos de una de las nuevas voces m?s interesantes del g?tico feminista en Latinoam?rica. Es el ocaso de las bacanales sangrientas en Europa, del asesinato y los festines sin fin. En el siglo XIX, una vampira llega de Europa a la costa de Buenos Aires, y por segunda vez en su vida observa c?mo los pueblos se transforman en una ciudad cosmopolita, una que pronto quedar? devastada por la fiebre amarilla. Debe adaptarse, mezclarse con los humanos y ser discreta. En el Buenos Aires de hoy, una mujer se encuentra en un impasse mientras lucha con la enfermedad terminal de su madre y su propia relaci?n con la maternidad. Cuando se encuentra por primera vez con la vampira en un cementerio, algo se enciende en el interior de ambas mujeres... y cruzan un umbral del que no hay vuelta atr?s. Con ecos de Frankenstein, de Mary Shelley, y escrito en la l?nea de escritoras feministas g?ticas como Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier y Carmen Mar?a Machado, Sed juega con las fronteras del g?nero mientras explora los l?mites de la instrumentalidad femenina, el poder devorador del deseo y la fr?gil vitalidad de incluso la m?s inmortal de las criaturas.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting yearning that will not let them rest. A breakout, genre-blurring novel from one of the most exciting new voices of Latin America's feminist Gothic. It is the twilight of Europe's bloody bacchanals, of murder and feasting without end. In the nineteenth century, a vampire arrives from Europe to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the second time in her life, watches as villages transform into a cosmopolitan city, one that will soon be ravaged by yellow fever. She must adapt, intermingle with humans, and be discreet. In present-day Buenos Aires, a woman finds herself at an impasse as she grapples with her mother's terminal illness and her own relationship with motherhood. When she first encounters the vampire in a cemetery, something ignites within the two women--and they cross a threshold from which there's no turning back. With echoes of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and written in the vein of feminist Gothic writers like Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, and Carmen Maria Machado, Thirst plays with the boundaries of genre while exploring the limits of female agency, the consuming power of desire, and the fragile vitality of even the most immortal of creatures.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting yearning that will not let them rest. A breakout, genre-blurring novel from one of the most exciting new voices of Latin America's feminist Gothic. It is the twilight of Europe's bloody bacchanals, of murder and feasting without end. In the nineteenth century, a vampire arrives from Europe to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the second time in her life, watches as villages transform into a cosmopolitan city, one that will soon be ravaged by yellow fever. She must adapt, intermingle with humans, and be discreet. In present-day Buenos Aires, a woman finds herself at an impasse as she grapples with her mother's terminal illness and her own relationship with motherhood. When she first encounters the vampire in a cemetery, something ignites within the two women--and they cross a threshold from which there's no turning back. With echoes of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and written in the vein of feminist Gothic writers like Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, and Carmen Maria Machado, Thirst plays with the boundaries of genre while exploring the limits of female agency, the consuming power of desire, and the fragile vitality of even the most immortal of creatures.
| Author(s): | Yuszczuk, Marina |
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| Format: | Paperback |
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| Language: | Spanish |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Publication Date: | 2024-03-26 |
| Publisher: | Vintage Espanol |
| Weight: | 0.47 Pounds |
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