The winning novel of the Alfaguara 2025 award arrives in Mexico. The wind will burn of the Argentine Guillermo Saccomanno It is an entertaining novel in the best of terms. Sigrid Nunezone of the most interesting writers of the American Union, presents The vulnerablea fiction where friendship is the trigger for a series of endearing facts. Let’s go now with Sleep, scara fiction where the Mexican Nora de la Cruz Show the least friendly side of motherhood. We close our recommendations with the number 920 of the University Magazinethis time dedicated to networks.
Guillermo Saccomanno. The wind will burn. Alfaguara. 248 pp.
The Argentine narrator and brand new winner of the Alfaguara 2025 award, tells us the story of the Esterhazy, an eccentric couple without a clear past, arrive at a town on the Argentine coast and begin to run an old hotel. These two beings (and their two children, a girl and a child more disturbing and enigmatic than them) produce the effect of a sickly particle that is introduced into the cracks of a small society and sweeps with their daily dynamics, apparently calm. The couple turns out to be an amplifier of prejudices, hidden desires, superstitions, fears and larval violence in many of the people of the town.
Sigrid Nunez. The vulnerable. Anagram. Trad. Mercedes Cebrian. 208 pp.
At a friend’s friend, a woman agrees to take care of a vivaracho parrot called Eureka. From the fulfillment of that assignment and its relationship with a member to the drift of generation Z arise questions that can only be resolved, perhaps, investigating the nature and purpose of writing itself. What does it mean to be alive at such a complex moment in history as the current one? To what extent does our present reality affect the way a person looks at their past? In The vulnerablethe American narrator reveals what happens when a trio of perfect strangers is willing to open her heart to the other and how even smaller care acts can relieve the anguish of others.
Nora de la Cruz. Sleep, scar. Tusquets 296 pp.
A Saturday afternoon at his parents’ house, he suddenly stops for Lina. It is that fleeting but accurate feeling that something escapes from his crotch with speed and at the worst time: that is certainly blood. In other circumstances it would not be a reason for concern, but in his case it represents an imminent threat: she is a woman of almost forty years who is first pregnant. I reluctant to resort to her family, Lina is going through the social security journey while remembering the experiences that defined her: her adolescence and youth, love, sex, friendship and a pregnancy that has not necessarily chosen.
Several authors. Magazine of the University of Mexico. Networks. UNAM. 176 pp.
In line with the El Aleph Festival, the publication dedicates its number to the networks. It also includes commemorative texts by the centenary of Rosario Castellanos. Among the collaborators of their number 920 include Clyo Mendoza, Daniela Rea, Goubin Yang, Gabriel Rodríguez Liceaga and Bef.
