Miembro fantasma
Fernanda Trías
SHORT STORIES | 2026 | 148 pages
A phantom limb is an amputation that persists as pain and as a presence. Is it an imaginary pain? No; it’s real. The characters in these stories carry their losses with them. Pain that becomes ingrained, throbbing silently in the most intimate sphere—pain that remains lodged in the memory of families, lovers, and friends; that is inscribed in the history of a wounded nation. In this universe, addictions, escapes, and emotional detachment serve as anesthesia for what cannot be endured or erased: because some ghosts are invisible, but still they wander within us.
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“The stories in Miembro fantasma are admirable, not only for their narrative language, which is both virtuosic and powerful, but also for in the way they were conceived and how they open up to a vast range of mental and physical mutilations related to historical wounds, with additions such as alcoholism or emotional voids (...) Ultimately, a double protagonist lurks inside every plot: memory and oblivion, which together make these stories unforgettable.”
“Miembro fantasma explores the way the things we lose continue shaping our lives with precision...in these powerful stories, Trías demonstrates the extent to which the short story continues to be one of literature’s most demanding forms.”
“None of the stories in this new collection by the Uruguayan writer resorts to predictable structures, and it is precisely there that the virtues of these stories, which are always striving to do something different, lie.”
“These stories unfold in an atmosphere of terrifying beauty.”
BY FERNANDA TRÍAS:
Miembro fantasma
STORIES, 2026
El monte de las furias
NOVEL, 2025
Mugre rosa
NOVEL, 2020
La azotea
NOVEL, 2018
No soñarás flores
STORIES, 2016
La ciudad invencible
NOVEL, 2013