Los nuevos
Pedro Mairal

NOVEL | 2025 | 451 pages

Pedro Mairal’s highly anticipated return to the novel after his bestselling La uruguaya. A brilliant and moving portrait of the path from adolescence into adulthood.

Thiago, Pilar, and Bruno cross the unstable border between adolescence and adulthood during a summer that burns and a winter that isolates, with Buenos Aires as a backdrop like a labyrinth that they begin to decipher. How do they grow up when adults seem to be enemies? What can they do to confront the demands of becoming something they didn't choose? What shapes can love and desire take? 

Marked by the loss of his mother, Thiago struggles to find his footing in a world from which he feels cast out. From a university in the United States, Bruno tries to find the vocabulary that best represents him while living in a foreign geography and language. Pilar, who has always been the group's center of gravity, is charged with sustaining what remains of this chosen family as her own family falls apart.

Pedro Mairal constructs a moving, authentic, and powerful novel about abandonment and about the abyss that is created when leaving childhood and its certainties behind. Los nuevos is a tender and fierce portrait of three friends who try to carve their own paths in a volatile environment where the only thing that remains firm is the bond that ties them together.

RIGHTS: spanish (world) PLANETA

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