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Title: Everything betrays us (Ice fish) / Author: Felipe Palomeque

The title was given a phrase of the book 2666, by Roberto Bolaño; The content, its own life transformed into fiction, or not so much. Writer and editor, Felipe Palomeque (Montevideo, 1985) published four novels, to which the latter is added in Format of Diario intimate. “I’ve been able to write for a while. At least, I can’t write in the way I did before,” are Felipe’s first words, the protagonist. Thus arises the idea of ​​the newspaper that, when you can, write in the morning. Its pages feed on those around it – asposa, son, group of literary workshop, friends – and their reflections. If in his previous works the narrative of Palomeque stood out for his ability to observe and laugh at the absurd in everyday life, in this novel that quality becomes deeper by the autoimmune disease he suffers and that, without euphemisms, transforms it into literature.

Title: Farmakeia (Alfaguara) / Author: Helena Corbellini

Several stories are woven in this novel that has as its scenario the literary Malángel People. With Cervantine structure, the plot arises from the notebooks written by Verónica Sáenz, friend of the narrator who lived in the town, went and returned. “Now I think that only the adventurers get away from their land,” writes the narrator. The story comes and goes over time, stops in drug trafficking in the town and goes towards the history of a pharmaceutical farm Baby and spells were achieved. But at the beginning, the year is 1974 in a barracks in Colonia, where they tortured and killed Aldo Perrini, Carmelo Felder, town near Malángel. “Historians intend to tell what really happened. The poets, what could have been. I think that a story is real just because of the spell of the story.”

Precio: $ 850

Title: On this earth (Creature Publisher) / Author: Flavor Lalo

A woman undertakes the construction of her home in a field, without previous experience and with her own hands. What begins as a practical challenge soon reveals its true dimension: each arduous step of the process becomes an act of self -discovery. As the work progresses, the protagonist dismiss not only the foundations of her future home, but also the traces of another woman who previously inhabited that same place. The author tells this process with a mixture of crudeness and lyricism, registering without romantic the reality of manual work, from the errors that must be assumed, and the tight economy of such a company, to the paradox of seeking freedom through the most demanding physical effort. On this earth It is the chronicle of a double construction: that of the physical house and that of an identity that will be reinvented.

Precio: $ 660

Title: A look in love (Linardi and Risso) / Author: Jorge Burel

“This book is the fruit of my admiration for the painting The hunter (1669-1670) by Johannes Vermeer de Delft and the effort to go beyond the mute and ecstatic fascination experienced on a couple of occasions in the Louvre Museum, where he is exhibited since the last quarter of the nineteent The blue demon, An essay on depression through the work of artists who suffered it. Now his admiration for Vermeer and his painting leads him to other reflections and towards the need for “an attentive, detained and critical observation”, at a time when that look seems to get lost “under a torrent of fleeting stimuli that lead us, without doing anything to avoid it, to a banality that degrades us”.

Precio: $ 490

Title: To the sun and all cities in the middle(Creature Publisher) / Author: ROSARIO WASÓSE

The writer and translator compiles in this volume a collection of chronicles, some published, other unpublished, which cover various geographies and stages of her life. With a prose that balances documentary precision and literary sensitivity, it draws a route that goes from his childhood at Cape Santa María to his training years in Brazil and the United Kingdom, also crossing his current life in Australia. The book stands out for its thorough descriptive capacity: it records from the chromatic landscape variations according to the time of day to the textures of the local vegetation, through the exact rhythms of the Uruguayan tides. Beyond landscaping, the work deepens how human beings move our places of origin by inhabiting new territories, thus building a map as geographical as literary.

Precio: $ 690

Title: The Bisector country (Three / rabid fish) / Author: Linng Cardozo

Although the media And social networks are not alien to him, Uruguay remains a kind of island divided by a unique bisector. While in many countries racist, sexist, homophobic, classist or negators of climate change thrive, here, perhaps because of the trauma that caused the dictatorship between 1973 and 1985, a “friendly polarization” coherent with the local maximum of “Naides is more than naides” predominates. About that uniqueness treats this book that analyzes that tone of center in which political forces manage to administer tensions under certain parameters. Putting in perspective the communication of actors such as President Luis Lacalle Pou and former president José Mujica, the author analyzes local political discourse and compares it to what happens in the region and the world and with national history itself.

Precio: $ 846