Hotel Cosmos
Carla Maliandi

NOVEL | 2027 | 176 pages

After his wife's death, a man attempts to decipher the secret hidden in the strange phrases she had jotted down in a notebook

From a hotel room window, the Constitución neighborhood opens up into the somber enigma that a man’s past has become after he happened upon the diary of his recently deceased wife. What do those ambiguous entries hide? An encounter with faith? A secret mysticism? An impossible revelation? Everything in Hotel Cosmos is uncertain yet tangible, as if the celestial topography of Buenos Aires were expressing its earthly nature right then and there. Carla Maliandi deepens the rugged beauty of her prose and once again circles the insidious question that haunts the characters in her novels: if we can barely sense our own place in the universe, how can we truly know others?

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“Maliandi dazzles once again with a syntax that feigns casualness yet is capable of housing complexities and existential depth. Love, music, devotion, and absence. This is an incredible novel.”
— Julián López
“Maliandi has written one of the most powerful works in contemporary Latin American literature. Her writing is as capable of playing with realism as it is of breaking free from it; it is as attentive to the world as it is to the music of the prose. It is a literature that tackles urgent questions: what becomes of memory, of the wound, of the habits and bonds that sustain a life, and of the intimate self projected onto the political sphere?”
— Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
“Maliandi’s writing maintains a kind of independence from events that remain terrible, yet views them from new perspectives: the horizon has receded. Perhaps for this very reason, the narrative arc is one of wandering—an immersion in the world where the most important things are learned by chance.”
— Beatriz Sarlo