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Nadie recuerda su propia muerte / No One Remembers Their Own Death
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A novel with sharp black humor that blends the world of rural magic with modern psychiatry, highlighting the contrasts between genetic and cultural inheritance.”—Alaíde Ventura, Julián Herbert, and David Toscana, Jury of the Mauricio Achar/Random House Prize 2024 “I don’t know if I’m crazy or bewitched,” confesses Gregoria, who carries a family legacy that no rosemary amulet has been able to undo: bad omens that almost all end in the grave. Now this invisible and imminent danger is stalking her. Determined to flee the city, with many doubts about the illness that plagues her, she returns to her grandparents' house in the village of Reforma de Pineda to seek answers, amidst cleansing rituals and tranquilizers. With a narrative technique that is always intense, poised between tragedy and dark humor, Berenice Andrade Medina achieves in this, her first novel, a tale of contrasts that exposes the fragile veil between magical and scientific thinking. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "I don't know if I'm crazy or cursed," confesses Gregoria, heir to a family legacy of deadly premonitions that no spell or amulet has been able to lift. Finding herself the target of these invisible and imminent threats, she flees the city and takes refuge at her grandparents' house in the village of Reforma de Pineda. There, between exorcisms and doses of anxiety medication, she searches for answers to her questions. Somewhere between tragedy and black humor, Berenice Andrade Medina's first novel is filled with narrative tension, a story of contrasts that exposes the fragile curtain between magical thinking and science
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