Los árboles caídos también son el bosque
Alejandra Kamiya

SHORT STORIES | 2015/2024 | 114 pages

There are many unnamed things. Certain times of day, like that reddish moment betweenthe light-filled afternoon and nighttime, certain gestures or rhythms, some body parts,some colors that are neither aqua nor moss.

Dawn breaks and a woman prepares a perfect breakfast for her husband and son, but things are never what they seem, and terror waits patiently to show its face. An epistolary exchange over the years keeps the bond between two women who know each other in the endearing that only true friendship makes possible alive. In the middle of a war, a Japanese soldier carries an order as precise as it is incomprehensible out without objections while discovering that the way we measure time isn’t necessarily always correct. Fragments of a long conversation between a maid and her employer suggest much more than what they say and accept much less than what they denounce.

The stories that make up this book, Alejandra Kamiya’s first, set the scene for what will become a writing style that leaves its own mark —as stripped down as it is powerful, as serene as it is surprising.

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