Our dead world / Liliana Colanzi ; translated from the Spanish by Jessica Sequeira.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colanzi Serrate, Liliana, 1981- author.

Contributor:

Sequeira, Jessica, translator.

Standardized Title:

Nuestro mundo muerto. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Genre:

Fantasy fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

105 pages ; 18 cm

Edition:

First Dalkey Archive edition.

Place of Publication:

Victoria, TX : Dalkey Archive Press, 2017.

Summary:

"A young woman suffers a mental breakdown because of her repressive and religious mother. A group of children is fascinated by the sudden death of a friend. A drug trafficking couple visits Paris at the same time as a psychopathic cannibal. A mysterious wave travels through a university campus, driving students to suicide. A photographer witnesses a family's surface composure shatter during a portrait session. A worker on Mars sees ghostly animals in the desert and longs for an impossible return to Earth. A plastic surgeon botches an operation and hides on a sugar cane plantation where indigenous slavery is practiced. Horror and the fantastic mark the unstable realism of Our Dead World, in which altered states of consciousness, marginalized peoples, animal bodies, and tensions between tradition and modernity are recurring themes. Liliana Colanzi's stories explore those moments when the civilized voice of the ego gives way to the buzzing of the subconscious, and repressed indigenous history destabilizes the colonial legacy still present in contemporary Latin America."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The eye

Alfredito

The wave

Meteorite

Cannibal

Family portrait

Our dead world

Story with bird.

ISBN:

9781943150113

1943150117

OCLC:

958482475