Кристина Ривера Гарса – лучшие книги

On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator’s house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host’s gender and identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity and eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. A Gothic tale of destabilized male-female binaries and subverted literary tropes, this is the book's first English publication.

September 2019. Cristina Rivera Garza travels from her home in Texas to Mexico City, in search of an old, unresolved criminal file. “My name is Cristina Rivera Garza,” she wrote in her request to the attorney general, “and I am writing to you as a relative of Liliana Rivera Garza, who was murdered on July 16, 1990.” It’s been twenty-nine years. Twenty-nine years, three months, and two days since Liliana was murdered by an abusive ex-boyfriend—and Cristina knows there is only a slim chance of recovering the file. And yet, inspired by feminist movements across the world and enraged by the global epidemic of femicide and intimate partner violence, she embarks on a path toward justice. Liliana’s Invincible Summer is the account—and the outcome—of that extraordinary quest.

Es de noche y hay tormenta. Y tambi?n una casa incrustada frente al oc?ano. El m?dico que vive en ella escucha de s?bito unos golpes en su puerta. En el umbral encuentra a Amparo D?vila, una inquietante mujer que afirma ser «una gran escritora» y conocerlo del pasado. Tras ella, esa misma noche, llega la Traicionada, una examante del m?dico que aparece enferma.Las dos se instalar?n en su casa con una familiaridad macabra y empezar?n a hablar entre ellas un idioma desconocido por el protagonista, quien ver?, entre carcajadas, incredulidad y espanto, c?mo el control de su vida le ir? siendo arrebatado.Esta inquietante historia le sirve a Cristina Rivera Garza para explorar la identidad, nuestros miedos m?s hondos y el poder crucial del lenguaje. La autora nos recuerda c?mo la violencia impacta en los cuerpos, cuestiona los l?mites de lo real y los marcadores del g?nero. El resultado es un relato trepidante, una deslumbrante reflexi?n sobre la identidad, la violencia, el cuerpo y el lenguaje.