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Rafael Gumucio’s new novel LOS PARIENTES POBRES is out now with @penguinlibroscl! 🎉
Eleven brothers exchange messages about the situation regarding their father, who in his old age is forging scandalous connections and exhibiting behavior that doesn’t only put his numerous children’s affections to the test, but also sparks each one’s memories and obstinacies, leaving room for the manifestation—emphatic, fun, exasperating—of their differences, debts, and grudges.
In Los parientes pobres, by intertwining voices and deftly switching between perspectives, Rafael Gumucio offers us a novel where the fresco that he has been creating for three decades about the modes of establishing relationships in Chile finds one of its tallest peaks. The story of a fallen patriarch that is also the story of lost generations, a comedy that is also a drama, a competition of voices that get confused and distanced, that search for each other and laugh at each other until finding each other or separating forever.
More information: https://www.indentagency.com/los-parientes-pobres
Jazmina Barrera’s LA REINA DE ESPADAS—a reconstruction of the life of Elena Garro, an essential 20th-century writer—is out now with @penguinlibrosmx! 🎉
This book introduces us to an Elena Garro that perhaps only her closest friends knew: a human Elena who was fallible and multifaceted. In order to trace this magnificent portrait, Jazmina Barrera uses scientific rigor and a sense of humor to thread together a personal collection surrounding the writer: fragments of her work, diaries, letters, and interviews intertwine with quotes from documentaries, files from the Princeton archive’s Elena Garro Papers, and even tarot, I Ching, and astrology sessions.
This book highlights Elena Garro’s peculiar way of inhabiting the world and her capacity to give it new meanings through the things she was obsessed with. The acute observation skills that characterize Jazmina Barrera’s writing join her infinite curiosity and her prodigious memory in order to gift us a series of snapshots of a great writer of the 20th century. One of the most suggestive Spanish-language writers, winner of the Latin American Voices Prize, reconstructs the life and figure of Elena Garro, an essential 20th-century writer.
More information: http://www.indentagency.com/la-reina-de-espadas
ENSAYO GENERAL [DRESS REHEARSAL] by Milena Busquets is out now with @anagramaeditor!
Using several of the “genres” (novel, auto fiction, essays, journal) given to writers to express themselves, Milena Busquets continues her quest to explain the world, or some of it, through her life and the experiences of a “privileged” woman in a privileged part of the world. Barcelona, Cadaqués, children, boyfriends, lovers, friends, the publishing world into which she was born, the experience of trying to write without imposture, the long shadow of a dead mother, time passing by, success, failure, fear, sex, solitude, and freedom.
Deep and frivolous, fun and depressing, teenager-like yet wise as a hundred-year-old grandmother, braver than ever, meticulous in her observation of details that make us who we are, hilariously funny and devastatingly sad, this is Milena Busquets in tip-top form.
Rights represented on behalf of Anagrama. More information: https://www.anagrama-ed.es/foreign-rights/book/narrativas-hispanicas/ensayo-general/9788433922960/NH_732
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. 🎉