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Carlos Lechuga’s ESTA ES TU CASA, FIDEL—a freely told, real, and dystopian memoir about Cuba’s recent history told by the grandson of a revolutionary—is out now with @deconatus! 🎉
Carlos D. Lechuga is the grandson of one of the revolutionaries who wound up as a UN ambassador and as John Kennedy’s interlocutor during the missile crisis. This is why he’s had access to the privileged life of the families close to Fidel or to guests of the regime such as García Márquez. As a child, he dreamed of the death of his grandfather to be able to see Fidel at the burial. As an adult, he had to go into exile to save his life because of a movie circulating through international film festivals, Santa y Andrés.
This is a real and contemporary dystopia. In this memoir, Carlos D. Lechuga shares about the Sundays spent in the home of one of the leaders of the Revolution, the everyday fears in a shared house, the discovery of cinema and prohibited sex, encounters with García Márquez, and, above all, about the pain of a broken family.
“Esta es tu casa, Fidel” [This is Your House, Fidel] was the sign put up in houses at the start of the revolution. Much has happened since then.
More information: https://www.indentagency.com/carlos-lechuga
Tamara Tenenbaum’s latest novel LA ÚLTIMA ACTRIZ—a novel exploring feminine identity through time and memory—is out now with @planetadelibrosar! 🎉
Although she dreamed of becoming an actress, Sabrina wound up studying the Arts. Spurred by Gabriel—her thesis advisor and lover—she decides to investigate the traces of Jewish theater in Argentina. To do this she resorts to Jaim, an old professor who suggests she review the remains of the AMIA archives, the mutual organization that suffered a terrorist attack in 1994.
The investigation turns out to be complicated and difficult, because most of the documents disappeared with the bomb. That is until an archivist offers her a box where she discovers a diary by Jana, a Yiddish theater actress in Buenos Aires in 1960. Jana acts as a sort of magic mirror for Sabrina. Following her footsteps becomes an obsession, and everything else—her family, her career, her relationship with Gabriel—fades into the background.
In La última actriz, Tamara Tenenbaum demonstrates an exceptional narrative intelligence. With two disturbing female characters and a plot that is as elusive as it is hypnotic, this novel is about what it means to be a woman, desire and realization, the myth of the Dybuk and bodily possession, tradition and modernity, the city of Buenos Aires, and the search for an existential key in a stack of burned papers.
More information: https://www.indentagency.com/la-ultima-actriz
PROCESO CREATIVO [CREATIVE PROCESS] by Eduardo Salles—named one of @forbes’s 30 Most Creative Mexicans in the World—is out now with @penguinlibrosmx! 🎉
This is the definitive manual to spark ideas and improve your creative abilities—forget the filler anecdotes and discover the foundations of creativity in a way that is easy, effective, and visual. With six steps, this creative process will guide you on your journey to your next idea—from defining what you want to accomplish to making it a reality.
If you’ve been longing to innovate, create different things within your field of interest (art, design, technology, marketing, business…), or if you’re simply experiencing a creative block, this guide is the tool you were missing.
Eduardo Salles is the creator and co-founder of @pictoline, the digital platform that revolutionized visual information in Latin America. He got his start as a creative advertising director for brands like Google and Nike, with which he obtained some of the most prestigious international prizes in the field. He has published various books as an illustrator and collaborated with publications such as The New York Times and El País. Forbes included him in their list of the 30 Most Creative Mexicans in the World.
More information: https://www.indentagency.com/proceso-creativo
EL DESIERTO BLANCO [THE WHITE DESERT] by Luis López Carrasco, winner of the 2023 Herralde Novel Prize, was published with @anagramaeditor last year. Rights have sold to @grantabooks (World English) and The Writers’ Publishing House (Chinese) so far! 🎉
Nine strangers escape from bombings in a hot air balloon. They must decide which one of them has to jump into the ocean so that the rest of them can get to a deserted island safely and start a new civilization. The passengers are the only survivors of a worldwide war that has made the world we know disappear. What is at stake, in reality, isn’t the future of the human species, but a temporary job as a salesman in a large department store.
Carlos, the novel’s narrator, tries to rescue the world he lived in from an uncertain future alongside other close and complicit voices. From this enigmatic exile, the narrator traces the dark, subterranean currents that transformed the lives of every person he knew. Although the first quarter of the 21st century seems to be irrecoverable, Carlos might be able to decipher and rediscover—as his older brother’s increasingly fantastical and delirious emails remind him—the keys to a time period that seemed to be immune to fables and adventure, where the only kind of fiction that was tolerated was the kind that allowed people to fight for a shitty job.
Luis López Carrasco has written an exceptional novel whose protagonists will attempt to reconstruct, and, therefore, understand the invisible renunciations, the necessary alliances, and the unforeseen shapes of utopia.
All other foreign rights are available so far. More information: https://www.anagrama-ed.es/foreign-rights/book/narrativas-hispanicas/el-desierto-blanco/9788433918499/NH_724
¡Los eventos del Hay Festival Cartagena 2024 comienzan esta semana! Nuestros autores Fernanda Trías, Juan Cárdenas, Amalia Andrade, Gloria Susana Esquivel, Carlos Manuel Álvarez, Silvana Paternostro, Daniel Coronell, Laura Ardila y Felipe Restrepo Pombo, junto a Andrea Montejo, participarán en el festival del 25 al 28 de enero 🎉
The 2024 Hay Festival Cartagena is this week! Our authors Fernanda Trías, Juan Cárdenas, Amalia Andrade, Gloria Susana Esquivel, Carlos Manuel Álvarez, Silvana Paternostro, Daniel Coronell, Laura Ardila, and Felipe Restrepo Pombo, as well as Andrea Montejo, will be participating in the festival taking place from January 26-28. 🎉
Pablo Maurette's novel LA NIÑA DE ORO [THE GOLDEN GIRL] is out now with @anagramaeditor! 🎉
Just before the winter holidays of the year 1999, biology professor Aníbal Doliner is found murdered inside his home in Buenos Aires. The crime thwarts prosecutor Silvia Rey’s vacation plans, as she’s forced to take care of the proceedings. When it seems like the case is about to be closed, things get complicated, and she comes across another criminal proceeding involving an African wizard. It quickly turns out that nothing is as it first seemed.
The police investigation, with all its deductions and unexpected connections, strongly resembles a game that the prosecutor has played with her father ever since she was a young girl, consisting of collecting disconnected references to the same object. If there are two references, it’s called a “double.” Doubles are common. If the reference appears three times, either as a word, an image, or in the flesh, then it’s a “triple." Doubles and triples, corpses and suspects, puzzles, and answers. How much of the satisfactory resolution of a police case is deductive logic and how much is pure luck?
Pablo Maurette has written a detective novel full of ingenuity with priceless characters—starting with the prosecutor and her father—that functions as a sophisticated mechanism of narrative precision.
According to Alvaro Enrigue, "“La niña de oro is a crime novel and high literature. Pablo Maurette is a master." More information: https://www.indentagency.com/la-nina-de-oro
Award-winning journalist Leila Guerriero's latest book LA LLAMADA [THE PHONE CALL] is out now with @anagramaeditor! 🎉
In March of 1976, Silvia Labayru was 20, five months pregnant, and a member of the intelligence sector of the Montoneros organization, an armed Peronist extraction group. On December 29, 1976, she was kidnapped by soldiers and transported to a clandestine detention center located in ESMA (the Navy Petty-Officers School) where thousands of people were tortured and murdered. Labayru was tortured, forced to perform slave labor, repeatedly abused by an officer, and forced to play the part of the sister of Alfredo Astiz—a member of the Navy who had infiltrated the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo organization—in an operation that resulted in the disappearance of three Mothers and two French nuns.
Guerriero began interviewing Silvia Labayru in 2021 as she awaited the verdict of the first trial over sexual violence committed against women kidnapped during the dictatorship, in which Labayru was a complainant. The result is the portrait of a woman with a complex story in which love, sex, violence, humor, children, parents, infidelity, politics, friendship, and moving all come together. And above it all hovers a phone call she made from ESMA on March 14, 1977 that saved her life.
According to Patricio Pron, "Good journalism and good literature are one and the same, and Leila Guerriero knows how to write this (whatever you want to call it) like no other contemporary Latin American journalist." Rights have sold to @editionsrivages (French), @edizionisur (Italian), and @todavialivros (Portuguese, BR) so far. More information: https://www.indentagency.com/la-llamada