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Un jardín al fondo de la noche / A Garden in the Depths of Night
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Guinea, the narrator—with her broken relationships, her memories riddled with disgust, and the desire to drown out the smells of a rotten, macabre house—will have to seek the light of no longer hurting herself and being able to scream, break, burn, denounce. With this novel, Santaolalla dares to name what we have kept silent and to project, onto a wall, the theater of the dark and the macabre.”—Karina Sosa In Guinea's new house, the walls are covered with floor-to-ceiling mirrors; the curtains are almost always drawn, and the rooms reek of soap and pine-scented disinfectant. Guinea's new father rubs himself with so many scents that her nose itches when he gets near her; and he hates the light, just like vampires. This vampire father claims to be a sleepwalker and spends his time hovering around Guinea. No one else seems to notice that she is a vampire, except for her new older brother, Pascual, who tells her stories to make sense of what cannot be understood. While all this is happening, Guinea takes refuge in a huge, secret garden, inhabited by rabbits and shrouded in mist. There, time passes more quickly, and she learns that she must remain still, silent, almost without breathing. A novel that explores familiar spaces that are etched in memory by their ominous nature. Ximena Santaolalla, winner of the Mauricio Achar-Random House 2021 award, gives us in this, her second novel, a story where the game is the trace of the most intimate, domestic horror. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In Guinea's new house, the walls are mirrored from floor to ceiling, the curtains are almost always closed, and the rooms smell of soap and pine-scented disinfectant. Guinea's new father wears so many scents that his nose tickles when he comes near and, like a vampire, he can't stand daylight. He claims he sleepwalks, and Guinea is always waking up to find him there. No one else seems to notice he is a vampire except his new older brother, Pascual, who tells his stories to explain the things she doesn't understand. Guinea's refuge is a vast secret garden, home to mist and a colony of rabbits. Time seems to pass more quickly there, and she learns to stay still, silent, hardly daring to breathe. In this her second novel, Ximena Santaolalla, winner of the 2021 Mauricio Achar-Random House Prize, brings us an ominous tale about the most intimate kind of horror: family dysfunction
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