Cuentos atados a la pata de un lobo
Angélica Liddell

SHORT STORIES | 2025 | 256 pages

Mothers who attack their children, children who kill their parents, savage writers at war with institutions, suicidal characters, and confessional criminals all converge in these stories that offer no redemption or solace.

Through this parade of broken bodies, mutilated childhoods, painful romances, and unpunished crimes, Angélica Liddell surpasses the limits of language and morality in order to construct a powerful portrait about humanity: domestic violence, the desire for destruction, boredom, and death coexist in a series of scenes filled with grotesque and beautiful images.

RIGHTS: spanish MALAS TIERRAS EDITORIAL

Angélica Liddell writes with the nerve, the disgust, the fever of those who are out of place by choice and by fat
— Antonio Lucas, El Mundo
In Cuentos atados a la pata de un lobo, the writer and playwright traces a descent into hell. Her aesthetic is raw and indigestible, perverse and fascinating. It is not so much a book as a performance. In her stories, the human experience becomes a cabinet of atrocities, a parade of unhealthy relationships and terrible loneliness, a procession of mutilated bodies, of deranged beings, of victims and executioners, of crimes and passions, of tedium and fragility, of old age and astonishment at the passage of time. The text exudes fear, blood, sweat, and feces.
— Begoña Méndez, El Cultural
The most horrifying, slashing, and perverse book our language has ever seen. Playwright Angélica Liddell, winner of the 2025 National Theater Prize, constructs improbable plots in Cuentos atados a la pata de un lobo and plays with our terror and disgust: it is her way of intoxicating us, and clairvoyance prevails.
— Luna Miguel, El País