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賱噩賳賽 氐賵乇鬲蹖
賴蹖趩 丌睾丕夭蹖 丿乇讴丕乇 賳蹖爻鬲. 丌賳趩賴 亘賴鈥屫ж簇ㄘз� 丌睾丕夭賿 賯賱賲丿丕丿 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗃屬� 氐乇賮丕賸 賱丨馗賴鈥屫й屸€� 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賲鬲賵噩賴 鬲睾蹖蹖乇蹖 賲蹖鈥屫促堐屬�. 乇賵夭蹖 爻乇賵讴賱踿 賲丕賴蹖鈥屬囏� 倬蹖丿丕 卮丿貨 倬爻 丌賳 蹖讴 丌睾丕夭 亘賵丿. 亘蹖丿丕乇 卮丿蹖賲 賵 丿蹖丿蹖賲 爻賵丕丨賱 卮賴乇賲丕賳 倬賵卮蹖丿賴 卮丿賴 丕夭 賲丕賴蹖鈥屬囏й� 賳賯乇賴鈥屬佖з呚� 诏賵蹖蹖 亘丕 丿乇賽 賮賱夭蹖 亘胤乇蹖鈥屬囏� 蹖丕 禺乇丿賴鈥屫篡屫促団€屬囏� 賮乇卮蹖 爻丕禺鬲賴 亘賵丿賳丿貙 趩賳丕賳 亘乇丕賯 亘賵丿 讴賴 趩卮賲丕賳 丌丿賲 乇丕 賲蹖鈥屫⒇藏必�. 丨鬲蹖 亘丕賱踿 賲丕賴蹖鈥屬囏� 賴賲 鬲讴丕賳 賳賲蹖鈥屫堌必� 倬蹖卮 丕夭 丌賳讴賴 丌亘 丌賳鈥屬囏� 乇丕 倬爻 亘夭賳丿 亘丿賳卮丕賳 禺卮讴蹖丿賴 亘賵丿. 禺賵乇卮蹖丿 賴賲趩賳丕賳 鬲賵蹖 丌爻賲丕賳 賲蹖鈥屫必篡屫�. 賴賳賵夭 賲丕噩乇丕蹖 丕氐賱蹖 丌睾丕夭 賳卮丿賴 亘賵丿...
254 pages, Paperback
First published October 5, 2020
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Fernanda Tr铆as
20听books376听followersFernanda Tr铆as (Montevideo, 12 de octubre de 1976) es una escritora uruguaya. Es profesora de ingl茅s y traductora certificada.
Fernanda Tr铆as is a Uruguayan writer. She was born in Montevideo in 1976. She is the author of three novels and two short story collections. In 2004 she won a Unesco scholarship to write in Camac, an artists鈥� residence in Marnay-sur-Seine. She lived for five years in the medieval village of Provins and a few months in London. She spent one year in Berlin and two years in Buenos Aires. Tr铆as earned a Master鈥檚 degree in creative writing from New York University and was disciple of the Uruguayan writer Mario Levrero. She integrated anthologies of new narrative in Colombia, the United States, Uruguay, Peru, Germany (Neues vom Fluss: Junge Literatur aus Argentinien, Uruguay und Paraguay, 2010) and UK (Uruguayan Women Writers, 2012). Her novel Rooftop (La azotea, 2001) was selected among the best books of the year by the El Pa铆s Cultural Supplement, and won the third prize of edited narrative of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize (2002). In 2006 she received the BankBoston Foundation Prize for National Culture. She was one of the 鈥淰oices for the New Millennium鈥�, organized by Cornell University in 2013. She currently lectures in Creative Writing at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogot谩, Colombia. Her most recent novel Mugre Rosa (Pink Slime) has just come out in Uruguay (2020).
Fernanda Tr铆as is a Uruguayan writer. She was born in Montevideo in 1976. She is the author of three novels and two short story collections. In 2004 she won a Unesco scholarship to write in Camac, an artists鈥� residence in Marnay-sur-Seine. She lived for five years in the medieval village of Provins and a few months in London. She spent one year in Berlin and two years in Buenos Aires. Tr铆as earned a Master鈥檚 degree in creative writing from New York University and was disciple of the Uruguayan writer Mario Levrero. She integrated anthologies of new narrative in Colombia, the United States, Uruguay, Peru, Germany (Neues vom Fluss: Junge Literatur aus Argentinien, Uruguay und Paraguay, 2010) and UK (Uruguayan Women Writers, 2012). Her novel Rooftop (La azotea, 2001) was selected among the best books of the year by the El Pa铆s Cultural Supplement, and won the third prize of edited narrative of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize (2002). In 2006 she received the BankBoston Foundation Prize for National Culture. She was one of the 鈥淰oices for the New Millennium鈥�, organized by Cornell University in 2013. She currently lectures in Creative Writing at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogot谩, Colombia. Her most recent novel Mugre Rosa (Pink Slime) has just come out in Uruguay (2020).
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May 23, 2023
De entrada, se trata de una distop铆a, una ciudad que vive un estado horrible, la gente se est谩 enfermando, los peces se murieron, las aves huyeron, nadie entiende muy bien lo que pasa. Una historia en paralelo a la pandemia que sigue muy presente en el mundo. Aunque dudo que haya sido escrita despu茅s de que empezara la pandemia, por lo cual me encanta ese lado bruja, ese lado en donde como escritora ha intuido algo que podr铆a pasar. Eso en s铆 me parece incre铆ble.
Pero despu茅s, el libro se trata de mucho m谩s. Digamos que el centro de la historia, la acci贸n es esto de que la enfermedad ha invadido todo, que ocurre algo que no se comprende. El cuerpo, el hambre, la incertidumbre. Lo que m谩s me gusta de este libro es que la narradora protagonista est谩 toda llena de fantasmas, y lo que ocurre afuera, solo sirve para contar lo que le ocurri贸 a ella, sus relaciones truncadas, su madre, su ex pareja.
Cuida de un ni帽o que adem谩s trae otra historia, porque no est谩 conectado a la realidad, un ni帽o que por un s铆ndrome no puede dejar de comer. Entonces le toca vivir situaciones l铆mite con la comida, con el f铆sico, con un ni帽o que no entiende nada m谩s que su siguiente comida, y le toca protegerlo de s铆 mismo. Mientras tanto la gente desapareci贸, las algas misteriosas que parecen ser las causantes de todo est谩n ah铆, amenazantes.
Pero de todas formas, al final los fantasmas ganan. Ella no quiere irse a ninguna parte, piensa en que alg煤n d铆a se ir谩 a Brasil, que su vida empezar谩 en otro lado, sin enfermedad ni muerte. Pero no lo hace. Eso me parece maravilloso. Una met谩fora sobre c贸mo a veces lo que cargamos puede detenernos incluso ante una situaci贸n extrema. Su manera de contar, los 谩ngulos que le parecen llamativos, todo el enredo que cuenta de una manera muy l煤cida, me tuvieron hipnotizada. Porque aunque ella no busque salvarse, nunca te parece que la narradora tiene problemas, o que va a hacer alguna locura. Es de una sensatez tranquila, y esa tranquilidad es llamativa, cuando la ves acerc谩ndose al abismo. La am茅 y la recomiendo mucho.
Pero despu茅s, el libro se trata de mucho m谩s. Digamos que el centro de la historia, la acci贸n es esto de que la enfermedad ha invadido todo, que ocurre algo que no se comprende. El cuerpo, el hambre, la incertidumbre. Lo que m谩s me gusta de este libro es que la narradora protagonista est谩 toda llena de fantasmas, y lo que ocurre afuera, solo sirve para contar lo que le ocurri贸 a ella, sus relaciones truncadas, su madre, su ex pareja.
Cuida de un ni帽o que adem谩s trae otra historia, porque no est谩 conectado a la realidad, un ni帽o que por un s铆ndrome no puede dejar de comer. Entonces le toca vivir situaciones l铆mite con la comida, con el f铆sico, con un ni帽o que no entiende nada m谩s que su siguiente comida, y le toca protegerlo de s铆 mismo. Mientras tanto la gente desapareci贸, las algas misteriosas que parecen ser las causantes de todo est谩n ah铆, amenazantes.
Pero de todas formas, al final los fantasmas ganan. Ella no quiere irse a ninguna parte, piensa en que alg煤n d铆a se ir谩 a Brasil, que su vida empezar谩 en otro lado, sin enfermedad ni muerte. Pero no lo hace. Eso me parece maravilloso. Una met谩fora sobre c贸mo a veces lo que cargamos puede detenernos incluso ante una situaci贸n extrema. Su manera de contar, los 谩ngulos que le parecen llamativos, todo el enredo que cuenta de una manera muy l煤cida, me tuvieron hipnotizada. Porque aunque ella no busque salvarse, nunca te parece que la narradora tiene problemas, o que va a hacer alguna locura. Es de una sensatez tranquila, y esa tranquilidad es llamativa, cuando la ves acerc谩ndose al abismo. La am茅 y la recomiendo mucho.
November 5, 2024
just girly things!
and true to my personal female experience, something just felt off here 鈥� i don't know if this was strangely translated, or just lacking in plot and answers, but this felt very concerned with building a slow-moving and confusing dystopian world and not much else.
the perspective, which switched between past and present and future, sometimes within one sentence; and the language, which alternated between very simple and very purple; and the structure, featuring chapters of somewhat unpredictable timeline mixed in with lines of what might've been poetry, all contributed to a very slow, unfortunately annoying, generally confusing reading experience.
if it had been done with more style, i probably would've liked it. as is...
bottom line: too much / not enough / etc.
(thanks to the publisher for the copy)
and true to my personal female experience, something just felt off here 鈥� i don't know if this was strangely translated, or just lacking in plot and answers, but this felt very concerned with building a slow-moving and confusing dystopian world and not much else.
the perspective, which switched between past and present and future, sometimes within one sentence; and the language, which alternated between very simple and very purple; and the structure, featuring chapters of somewhat unpredictable timeline mixed in with lines of what might've been poetry, all contributed to a very slow, unfortunately annoying, generally confusing reading experience.
if it had been done with more style, i probably would've liked it. as is...
bottom line: too much / not enough / etc.
(thanks to the publisher for the copy)
April 12, 2024
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賮讴乇 賲蹖讴乇丿賲 倬卮鬲鈥屫ㄘз� 丕夭 賴賲蹖賳 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 毓噩蹖亘鈥屫臂屬� 鬲噩乇亘賴 爻丕賱賲 亘賵丿賴貙 丕賲丕 賳賴. 賱噩賳 氐賵乇鬲蹖 毓噩蹖亘鈥屫臂屬� 亘賵丿貙 诏乇趩賴 禺賵丿 夭賳丿诏蹖 亘賵丿. 賴賲蹖賳 丕賳丿丕夭賴 诏丕賴蹖 鬲賱禺貙 诏丕賴蹖 夭蹖亘丕鈥� 卮丕賴讴丕乇 丕夭 丿蹖丿 賲賳 蹖毓賳蹖 賴賲蹖賳
October 12, 2024
賱噩賳 氐賵乇鬲蹖 貙 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 卮诏賮鬲 丕賳诏蹖夭 卮賴乇蹖 亘賳丿乇蹖 丕蹖爻鬲 讴賴 亘賴 爻亘亘 亘丨乇丕賳 夭蹖爻鬲蹖 讴賴 亘乇 丌賳 丨丕讴賲 卮丿賴 亘賴 爻乇毓鬲 乇賵 亘賴 鬲亘丕賴蹖 賵 賳丕亘賵丿蹖 乇賮鬲賴 賵 丿乇 丌爻鬲丕賳賴 鬲亘丿蹖賱 卮丿賳 亘賴 賵蹖乇丕賳 卮賴乇蹖 賲禺賵賮 丕爻鬲 . 丕蹖賳 賮丕噩毓賴 亘丕 爻賲蹖 卮丿賳 噩賱亘讴 乇賵丿禺丕賳賴 賵 賲乇诏 丕賳亘賵賴 賲丕賴蹖 賴丕 卮乇賵毓 賲蹖 卮賵丿 貙 讴賲 讴賲 倬乇賳丿賴 賴丕 賴賲 丕夭 卮賴乇 賲蹖 乇賵賳丿 賵 丕賳爻丕賳 賴丕 賲蹖 賲丕賳賳丿 亘丕 賵夭卮 賲賴蹖亘 賵 鬲乇爻賳丕讴 亘丕丿蹖 爻乇禺 貙 亘丕丿蹖 讴賴 爻亘亘 賲乇诏蹖 賵丨卮鬲賳丕讴 賵 噩丕賳讴丕賴 賲蹖 卮賵丿 .
賱噩賳 氐賵乇鬲蹖 讴賴 賳賵卮鬲賴 賮乇賳丕賳丿丕 鬲乇蹖丕爻 貙 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 丕乇賵诏賵卅賴 丕蹖 丕蹖爻鬲 賵 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 卮賴乇蹖 鬲禺蹖賱蹖 丿乇 丕乇賵诏賵卅賴 乇丕 乇賵丕蹖鬲 賲蹖 讴賳丿 爻乇卮丕乇 丕夭 賲賳丕馗乇 賵 鬲氐丕賵蹖乇蹖 丌禺乇 夭賲丕賳蹖 賵 爻賵乇卅丕賱 賴爻鬲 . 鬲氐丕賵蹖乇蹖 讴賴 亘賴 賱胤賮 賯賱賲 夭賳丿賴 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 噩丕賳 诏乇賮鬲賴 賵 夭賳丿賴 卮丿賴 丕賳丿 . 丌跇蹖乇蹖 讴賴 賴賳诏丕賲 賵夭卮 亘丕丿 丿乇 卮賴乇 賳爻亘鬲丕 禺丕賱蹖 賲蹖 倬蹖趩丿 賵 亘賴 爻丕讴賳丕賳 卮賴乇 丕禺胤丕乇 賲蹖 丿賴丿 讴賴 丿乇 禺丕賳賴 亘賲丕賳賳丿 賵 丿乇賴丕 賵 倬賳噩乇賴 賴丕 乇丕 亘亘賳丿賳丿 . 夭賵夭賴 亘丕丿 讴賴 丿乇 卮賴乇 貙 讴賵趩賴 賴丕蹖 禺丕賱蹖 賵 禺丕賳賴 賴丕蹖 禺丕賱蹖 賲蹖 倬蹖趩丿 賵 賳賮蹖乇 賲乇诏 賲蹖 丿賴丿 . 賲賴 丕蹖 讴賴 亘毓丿 丕夭 賵夭卮 亘丕丿 貙 卮賴乇 乇丕 丿乇 亘乇 賲蹖 诏蹖乇丿 貙 鬲丕亘賱賵賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 丿乇 倬卮鬲 賲賴 丿蹖丿賴 賲蹖 卮賵賳丿 貙 丌丿賲 賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 爻乇 丿乇 诏乇蹖亘丕賳 丿丕乇賳丿 賵 亘賴 爻賲鬲 禺丕賳賴 賲蹖 乇賵賳丿 賵 丌蹖賳丿賴 丕蹖 賳丕賲毓賱賵賲 .
乇丕亘胤賴 丕賳爻丕賳 賴丕 丿乇 趩賳蹖賳 丿賳蹖丕蹖 乇賵 亘賴 夭賵丕賱蹖 趩诏賵賳賴 禺賵丕賴丿 亘賵丿 責
丕蹖賳 賲賵囟賵毓蹖 丕蹖爻鬲 讴賴 鬲乇蹖丕爻 丿乇 賱噩賳 氐賵乇鬲蹖 亘賴 丌賳 倬乇丿丕禺鬲賴 貙 賯賴乇賲丕賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕賵 夭賳 噩賵丕賳蹖 丕蹖爻鬲 讴賴 丿乇 丕蹖賳 卮賴乇 乇賵 亘賴 賵蹖乇丕賳蹖 賵 夭賵丕賱 貙 乇賵丕亘胤 倬乇 鬲賳卮蹖 亘丕 賲丕丿乇 賵 丿賵爻鬲 爻丕亘賯 禺賵丿 丿丕乇丿 . 丕賵 丿乇 丕蹖賳 禺乇丕亘 丌亘丕丿 鬲賱丕卮 賲蹖 讴賳丿 鬲丕 卮丕蹖丿 亘鬲賵丕賳丿 亘禺卮蹖 丕夭 氐賮丕鬲 丕賳爻丕賳蹖 禺賵丿 乇丕 丨賮馗 讴賳丿 . 丕夭 丕蹖賳 乇賵爻鬲 讴賴 亘賴 倬乇爻鬲丕乇蹖 丕夭 倬爻乇蹖 亘蹖賲丕乇 倬乇丿丕禺鬲賴 讴賴 亘蹖賲丕乇蹖 賲賴賱讴蹖 丿丕乇丿 . 賴賲夭賲丕賳 乇丕亘胤賴 丕蹖賳 讴賵丿讴 亘丕 賲丕丿乇 禺賵丿 賴賲 讴賴 丨賵氐賱賴 倬乇爻鬲丕乇蹖 趩賳丿丕賳蹖 賳丿丕乇丿 貙 亘爻蹖丕乇 噩丕賱亘 丕爻鬲 . 丿乇 賲蹖丕賳 鬲賲丕賲蹖 賲氐蹖亘鬲 賴丕 貙 倬乇爻卮 丕氐賱蹖 丕蹖賳 丕爻鬲 讴賴 丌蹖丕 丕賳爻丕賳 丿乇 賲賵丕噩賴賴 亘丕 趩賳蹖賳 卮乇丕蹖胤蹖貙 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗀� 亘賴 賴賲丿賱蹖 賵 賲賴乇亘丕賳蹖 倬丕蹖亘賳丿 亘賲丕賳丿 蹖丕 禺蹖乇
亘蹖卮鬲乇 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賴丕蹖 讴鬲丕亘 鬲乇蹖丕爻 乇丕 夭賳丕賳 鬲卮讴蹖賱 賲蹖 丿賴賳丿 貙 乇丕賵蹖 讴賴 禺賵丿 夭賳蹖 噩賵丕賳 丕爻鬲 貙 賲丕丿乇 乇丕賵蹖 讴賴 丕夭 丕蹖賳 卮乇丕蹖胤 爻禺鬲 貙 禺爻鬲賴 卮丿賴 賵 丌乇夭賵蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 丿乇 亘乇夭蹖賱 丿丕乇丿 貙 賲丕丿乇 倬爻乇 亘蹖賲丕乇 讴賴 孬乇賵鬲賲賳丿 丕爻鬲 賵 賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳丿 禺丕賳賵丕丿賴 禺賵丿 乇丕 賳噩丕鬲 丿賴丿 貙 倬乇爻鬲丕乇 丿賵乇丕賳 讴賵丿讴蹖 乇丕賵蹖 讴賴 賲丿丕賲 诏匕卮鬲賴 賴丕 乇丕 亘賴 禺丕胤乇 丕賵 賲蹖 丌賵乇丿 貙 丕夭 丕蹖賳 乇賵 賱噩賳 氐賵乇鬲蹖 乇丕 賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳 蹖讴 讴鬲丕亘 夭賳丕賳賴 丿丕賳爻鬲 . 夭賳丕賳蹖 讴賴 丿乇 丿賳蹖丕蹖蹖 丿卮賵丕乇 貙 鬲賱丕卮 丿乇 倬蹖丿丕 讴乇丿賳 賴賵蹖鬲 賵 噩丕蹖诏丕賴 禺賵丿 賵丕賱亘鬲賴 丿乇 賲賵乇丿 乇丕賵蹖 貙 丨賮馗 丕賳爻丕賳蹖鬲 賴賲 丿丕乇賳丿 .
賱噩賳 氐賵乇鬲蹖 讴賴 賴賲夭賲丕賳 亘丕 卮蹖賵毓 讴乇賵賳丕 賳賵卮鬲賴 卮丿賴 貙 讴賵卮蹖丿賴 鬲丕 亘丕 丿蹖丿诏丕賴蹖 亘丿亘蹖賳丕賳賴 貙 鬲睾蹖蹖乇 賵 丿诏乇诏賵賳蹖 乇賮鬲丕乇 賴丕蹖 丕賳爻丕賳蹖 賵 丿賵乇 卮丿賳 丕賳爻丕賳 丕夭 丕氐賱 禺賵丿 貙 賴賳诏丕賲 賵賯賵毓 賮丕噩毓賴 乇丕 卮乇丨 丿賴丿 . 丿賳蹖丕蹖 鬲蹖乇賴 賵 鬲丕乇蹖 讴賴 鬲乇蹖丕爻 丌賮乇蹖丿賴 貙 卮亘丕賴鬲 夭蹖丕丿蹖 亘賴 丿賵乇丕賳 賯乇賳胤蹖賳賴 爻禺鬲 讴乇賵賳丕 賵 乇賮鬲丕乇賴丕蹖 讴丕爻亘 诏乇丕賳賴 賵 毓噩蹖亘 鬲賵丿賴 賲乇丿賲 丿丕乇丿 . 丿乇 丕蹖賳 賲蹖丕賳 丌賳 趩賴 亘乇丕蹖 鬲乇蹖丕爻 賲賴賲 亘賵丿賴 丕賮乇丕丿 賵 噩丕賲毓賴 丕蹖 亘賵丿賴
讴賴 丿乇 爻丕蹖賴鈥屰� 鬲乇爻 賵 賳丕丕賲賳蹖貙 丿乇 丨丕賱 丕夭 丿爻鬲 丿丕丿賳 賴賵蹖鬲 禺賵丿 賴爻鬲賳丿 .
賱噩賳 氐賵乇鬲蹖 讴賴 賳賵卮鬲賴 賮乇賳丕賳丿丕 鬲乇蹖丕爻 貙 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 丕乇賵诏賵卅賴 丕蹖 丕蹖爻鬲 賵 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 卮賴乇蹖 鬲禺蹖賱蹖 丿乇 丕乇賵诏賵卅賴 乇丕 乇賵丕蹖鬲 賲蹖 讴賳丿 爻乇卮丕乇 丕夭 賲賳丕馗乇 賵 鬲氐丕賵蹖乇蹖 丌禺乇 夭賲丕賳蹖 賵 爻賵乇卅丕賱 賴爻鬲 . 鬲氐丕賵蹖乇蹖 讴賴 亘賴 賱胤賮 賯賱賲 夭賳丿賴 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 噩丕賳 诏乇賮鬲賴 賵 夭賳丿賴 卮丿賴 丕賳丿 . 丌跇蹖乇蹖 讴賴 賴賳诏丕賲 賵夭卮 亘丕丿 丿乇 卮賴乇 賳爻亘鬲丕 禺丕賱蹖 賲蹖 倬蹖趩丿 賵 亘賴 爻丕讴賳丕賳 卮賴乇 丕禺胤丕乇 賲蹖 丿賴丿 讴賴 丿乇 禺丕賳賴 亘賲丕賳賳丿 賵 丿乇賴丕 賵 倬賳噩乇賴 賴丕 乇丕 亘亘賳丿賳丿 . 夭賵夭賴 亘丕丿 讴賴 丿乇 卮賴乇 貙 讴賵趩賴 賴丕蹖 禺丕賱蹖 賵 禺丕賳賴 賴丕蹖 禺丕賱蹖 賲蹖 倬蹖趩丿 賵 賳賮蹖乇 賲乇诏 賲蹖 丿賴丿 . 賲賴 丕蹖 讴賴 亘毓丿 丕夭 賵夭卮 亘丕丿 貙 卮賴乇 乇丕 丿乇 亘乇 賲蹖 诏蹖乇丿 貙 鬲丕亘賱賵賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 丿乇 倬卮鬲 賲賴 丿蹖丿賴 賲蹖 卮賵賳丿 貙 丌丿賲 賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 爻乇 丿乇 诏乇蹖亘丕賳 丿丕乇賳丿 賵 亘賴 爻賲鬲 禺丕賳賴 賲蹖 乇賵賳丿 賵 丌蹖賳丿賴 丕蹖 賳丕賲毓賱賵賲 .
乇丕亘胤賴 丕賳爻丕賳 賴丕 丿乇 趩賳蹖賳 丿賳蹖丕蹖 乇賵 亘賴 夭賵丕賱蹖 趩诏賵賳賴 禺賵丕賴丿 亘賵丿 責
丕蹖賳 賲賵囟賵毓蹖 丕蹖爻鬲 讴賴 鬲乇蹖丕爻 丿乇 賱噩賳 氐賵乇鬲蹖 亘賴 丌賳 倬乇丿丕禺鬲賴 貙 賯賴乇賲丕賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕賵 夭賳 噩賵丕賳蹖 丕蹖爻鬲 讴賴 丿乇 丕蹖賳 卮賴乇 乇賵 亘賴 賵蹖乇丕賳蹖 賵 夭賵丕賱 貙 乇賵丕亘胤 倬乇 鬲賳卮蹖 亘丕 賲丕丿乇 賵 丿賵爻鬲 爻丕亘賯 禺賵丿 丿丕乇丿 . 丕賵 丿乇 丕蹖賳 禺乇丕亘 丌亘丕丿 鬲賱丕卮 賲蹖 讴賳丿 鬲丕 卮丕蹖丿 亘鬲賵丕賳丿 亘禺卮蹖 丕夭 氐賮丕鬲 丕賳爻丕賳蹖 禺賵丿 乇丕 丨賮馗 讴賳丿 . 丕夭 丕蹖賳 乇賵爻鬲 讴賴 亘賴 倬乇爻鬲丕乇蹖 丕夭 倬爻乇蹖 亘蹖賲丕乇 倬乇丿丕禺鬲賴 讴賴 亘蹖賲丕乇蹖 賲賴賱讴蹖 丿丕乇丿 . 賴賲夭賲丕賳 乇丕亘胤賴 丕蹖賳 讴賵丿讴 亘丕 賲丕丿乇 禺賵丿 賴賲 讴賴 丨賵氐賱賴 倬乇爻鬲丕乇蹖 趩賳丿丕賳蹖 賳丿丕乇丿 貙 亘爻蹖丕乇 噩丕賱亘 丕爻鬲 . 丿乇 賲蹖丕賳 鬲賲丕賲蹖 賲氐蹖亘鬲 賴丕 貙 倬乇爻卮 丕氐賱蹖 丕蹖賳 丕爻鬲 讴賴 丌蹖丕 丕賳爻丕賳 丿乇 賲賵丕噩賴賴 亘丕 趩賳蹖賳 卮乇丕蹖胤蹖貙 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗀� 亘賴 賴賲丿賱蹖 賵 賲賴乇亘丕賳蹖 倬丕蹖亘賳丿 亘賲丕賳丿 蹖丕 禺蹖乇
亘蹖卮鬲乇 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賴丕蹖 讴鬲丕亘 鬲乇蹖丕爻 乇丕 夭賳丕賳 鬲卮讴蹖賱 賲蹖 丿賴賳丿 貙 乇丕賵蹖 讴賴 禺賵丿 夭賳蹖 噩賵丕賳 丕爻鬲 貙 賲丕丿乇 乇丕賵蹖 讴賴 丕夭 丕蹖賳 卮乇丕蹖胤 爻禺鬲 貙 禺爻鬲賴 卮丿賴 賵 丌乇夭賵蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 丿乇 亘乇夭蹖賱 丿丕乇丿 貙 賲丕丿乇 倬爻乇 亘蹖賲丕乇 讴賴 孬乇賵鬲賲賳丿 丕爻鬲 賵 賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳丿 禺丕賳賵丕丿賴 禺賵丿 乇丕 賳噩丕鬲 丿賴丿 貙 倬乇爻鬲丕乇 丿賵乇丕賳 讴賵丿讴蹖 乇丕賵蹖 讴賴 賲丿丕賲 诏匕卮鬲賴 賴丕 乇丕 亘賴 禺丕胤乇 丕賵 賲蹖 丌賵乇丿 貙 丕夭 丕蹖賳 乇賵 賱噩賳 氐賵乇鬲蹖 乇丕 賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳 蹖讴 讴鬲丕亘 夭賳丕賳賴 丿丕賳爻鬲 . 夭賳丕賳蹖 讴賴 丿乇 丿賳蹖丕蹖蹖 丿卮賵丕乇 貙 鬲賱丕卮 丿乇 倬蹖丿丕 讴乇丿賳 賴賵蹖鬲 賵 噩丕蹖诏丕賴 禺賵丿 賵丕賱亘鬲賴 丿乇 賲賵乇丿 乇丕賵蹖 貙 丨賮馗 丕賳爻丕賳蹖鬲 賴賲 丿丕乇賳丿 .
賱噩賳 氐賵乇鬲蹖 讴賴 賴賲夭賲丕賳 亘丕 卮蹖賵毓 讴乇賵賳丕 賳賵卮鬲賴 卮丿賴 貙 讴賵卮蹖丿賴 鬲丕 亘丕 丿蹖丿诏丕賴蹖 亘丿亘蹖賳丕賳賴 貙 鬲睾蹖蹖乇 賵 丿诏乇诏賵賳蹖 乇賮鬲丕乇 賴丕蹖 丕賳爻丕賳蹖 賵 丿賵乇 卮丿賳 丕賳爻丕賳 丕夭 丕氐賱 禺賵丿 貙 賴賳诏丕賲 賵賯賵毓 賮丕噩毓賴 乇丕 卮乇丨 丿賴丿 . 丿賳蹖丕蹖 鬲蹖乇賴 賵 鬲丕乇蹖 讴賴 鬲乇蹖丕爻 丌賮乇蹖丿賴 貙 卮亘丕賴鬲 夭蹖丕丿蹖 亘賴 丿賵乇丕賳 賯乇賳胤蹖賳賴 爻禺鬲 讴乇賵賳丕 賵 乇賮鬲丕乇賴丕蹖 讴丕爻亘 诏乇丕賳賴 賵 毓噩蹖亘 鬲賵丿賴 賲乇丿賲 丿丕乇丿 . 丿乇 丕蹖賳 賲蹖丕賳 丌賳 趩賴 亘乇丕蹖 鬲乇蹖丕爻 賲賴賲 亘賵丿賴 丕賮乇丕丿 賵 噩丕賲毓賴 丕蹖 亘賵丿賴
讴賴 丿乇 爻丕蹖賴鈥屰� 鬲乇爻 賵 賳丕丕賲賳蹖貙 丿乇 丨丕賱 丕夭 丿爻鬲 丿丕丿賳 賴賵蹖鬲 禺賵丿 賴爻鬲賳丿 .
January 20, 2024
I like quiet books but this? Bored out of my skull. I wanted the MC to just starve to death or choke on the eponymous pink slime so she'd shut up and the book could be over. The beginning was good though.
October 12, 2024
丨鬲賲丕賸 亘乇丕蹖 卮賲丕 賴賲 倬蹖卮 丕賵賲丿賴 讴鬲丕亘 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴鈥屫й� 乇賵 亘禺賵賳蹖丿 賵 亘賴鈥屬傌臂� 丿賵爻鬲卮 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮蹖丿 讴賴 亘丕 賵丨卮鬲鈥� 亘乇蹖丿 爻乇丕睾 讴鬲丕亘鈥屬囏й屸€� 丿蹖诏賴鈥屫�. 賳爻禺賴贁 丕賳诏賱蹖爻蹖 倬蹖卮 丕夭 趩丕倬 鈥溬勜� 氐賵乇鬲蹖鈥� 讴賴 亘賴 丿爻鬲賲 乇爻蹖丿 賲蹖鈥屫必驰屫� 亘賴 禺賵亘蹖 鈥溬矩簇€屫ㄘз呪€� 賳亘丕卮賴貙 丕賲丕 亘毓丿賽 禺賵賳丿賳 賳氐賮卮 賮賴賲蹖丿賲 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 丨鬲蹖 丕夭 噩賴丕鬲蹖 禺蹖賱蹖 亘蹖卮鬲乇 亘丕亘 賲蹖賱賲賴鈥斬必呝団€屫� 乇賵 讴賴 卮乇賵毓 讴乇丿賲 倬卮鬲鈥屫ㄘз� 賴賳賵夭 賲賳鬲卮乇 賳卮丿賴 亘賵丿 賵 賴蹖趩 鬲氐賵乇蹖 丕夭 賵丕讴賳卮 賲禺丕胤亘鈥屬囏� 賳丿丕卮鬲賲鈥斮矩簇€屫ㄘз� 丕夭 丕賵賳 讴鬲丕亘鈥屬囏й屰� 亘賵丿 讴賴 賲賳貙 亘乇毓讴爻 禺蹖賱蹖鈥屬囏ж� 亘蹖卮鬲乇 賲噩匕賵亘 賳丨賵賴贁 賳诏丕乇卮 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴鈥屫� 卮丿賲 鬲丕 賲賵囟賵毓 毓噩蹖亘 蹖丕 倬丕蹖丕賳 賴賵賱賳丕讴卮. 賱噩賳 氐賵乇鬲蹖 賳賯胤賴贁 賲賯丕亘賱 丕賵賳 乇賲丕賳賴 (丕賱亘鬲賴鈥� 讴賴 卮亘丕賴鬲鈥屬囏й屰� 丿丕乇賴)貨 乇賵丕蹖鬲蹖 讴賴 丌乇賵賲鈥屫⒇辟堎� 乇禺賳賴 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁� 亘賴 賵噩賵丿 丌丿賲 賵 亘賴鈥� 夭蹖亘丕蹖蹖 賮賱爻賮賴贁 夭賳丿诏蹖 乇賵 賵丕讴丕賵蹖 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁�. 丿乇 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賴賲 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 亘乇噩爻鬲賴 亘賵丿 亘蹖賲丕乇蹖 毓噩蹖亘 賵 讴購卮賳丿賴鈥屫й� 讴賴 丿丕乇賴 噩賴丕賳 乇賵 賳丕亘賵丿 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁� 賳亘賵丿貙 亘賱讴賴 鬲賵氐蹖賮鈥屬囏й� 诏蹖乇丕蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴貙 賮囟丕爻丕夭蹖 賵 賳诏丕賴卮 亘賴 乇賵丕亘胤 丕賳爻丕賳蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 賲賳 乇賵 賲卮鬲丕賯 鬲乇噩賲賴 讴乇丿貨 亘丕賵噩賵丿 丿卮賵丕乇蹖 賲鬲賳貙 丕夭 賲毓丿賵丿 賲鬲賳鈥屬囏й屰� 亘賵丿 讴賴 丕夭 鬲乇噩賲賴贁 鬲讴鈥屫� 賵丕跇賴鈥屬囏ж� 賵 賳亘賵睾 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴鈥屫� 賱匕鬲 亘乇丿賲. 鬲丕 丨丿 丕賲讴丕賳 爻毓蹖 讴乇丿賲貙 倬蹖趩蹖丿诏蹖鈥屬囏й� 夭亘丕賳蹖 賵 夭賲丕賳蹖 賲鬲賳 乇賵 丨賮馗 讴賳賲 賵 亘乇丕蹖 讴蹖賮蹖鬲 亘賴鬲乇貙 毓賱丕賵賴鈥屫ㄘ� 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴貙 丕夭 賲鬲乇噩賲 丕賳诏賱蹖爻蹖 讴鬲丕亘 賴賲 讴賲讴 诏乇賮鬲賲貨 丕诏乇 趩賳蹖賳 賮乇氐鬲蹖 乇賵 賳丿丕卮鬲賲 卮丕蹖丿 賯蹖丿 鬲乇噩賲賴鈥屫� 乇賵 賲蹖鈥屫藏呪€�.
丕賲蹖丿賵丕乇賲 卮賲丕 賴賲 丕诏乇 禺賵賳丿蹖賳卮 賲孬賱 賲賳 睾乇賯 丿賳蹖丕蹖 賲禺賵賮卮 亘卮蹖丿 賵 賳鬲賵賳蹖丿 乇丕丨鬲 賮乇丕賲賵卮 讴賳蹖丿卮.
丕賲蹖丿賵丕乇賲 卮賲丕 賴賲 丕诏乇 禺賵賳丿蹖賳卮 賲孬賱 賲賳 睾乇賯 丿賳蹖丕蹖 賲禺賵賮卮 亘卮蹖丿 賵 賳鬲賵賳蹖丿 乇丕丨鬲 賮乇丕賲賵卮 讴賳蹖丿卮.
August 8, 2024
Pink Slime is a book which mostly concentrates on painting a dystopic world in which some mysterious pandemic related to algae keeps the world in its grip. The plot, which unfortunately remains weak compared to the effort put in describing this dark universe in which the titular pink slime, pulverized animal remains, is the main nutrition, follows a woman who takes care of a disabled child whose parents didn't want it and pay her to nanny him, and her relationships with her own mother and her ex-husband who is death-bound in hospital.
The kid, Mauro, has some weird syndrome which prevents him from ever feeling full, so he's constantly hungry and to satisfy that need is his primary motivation in life in a world, where food scarcity ravages. The bond between the two takes center stage, much like the strong bond between the protagonist and her own nanny.
For me, this is a beautifully written account of a world dealing with environmental collapse, and the condition of Mauro amplifying the misery. Unfortunately I would have wished a stronger, more imposing plot to go with the dystopia.
The kid, Mauro, has some weird syndrome which prevents him from ever feeling full, so he's constantly hungry and to satisfy that need is his primary motivation in life in a world, where food scarcity ravages. The bond between the two takes center stage, much like the strong bond between the protagonist and her own nanny.
For me, this is a beautifully written account of a world dealing with environmental collapse, and the condition of Mauro amplifying the misery. Unfortunately I would have wished a stronger, more imposing plot to go with the dystopia.
March 14, 2022
La epidemia nos hab铆a devuelto lo que a帽os atr谩s parec铆a irreversible: un pa铆s de lectores, sepultado lejos del mar, los ricos en sus estancias o casonas sobre las colinas, los pobres desbordando las ciudades del interior, aquellas mismas de las que antes nos burl谩bamos por vac铆as, escasas, obtusas.
La mugre rosa del t铆tulo es una especie de chopped/Soylent Green - de incierta procedencia - que es el 煤nico alimento disponible en un tiempo dist贸pico, que sigue a una indeterminada cat谩strofe ecol贸gica. Hay enfermedades arrastradas por un viento rojo que viene del mar y que causan toda una serie de horrores corporales. Mascarillas, hospitales colapsados, aislamiento en casa... Es curioso que se termin贸 de escribir en 2019, antes del coronavirus, pero tristemente es un ambiente que nos resulta familiar.
La recepcionista ten铆a un cartelito colgado en el bolsillo de su chaqueta. En la foto sonre铆a, pero delante de m铆, la boca y la nariz permanec铆an escondidas detr谩s de un barbijo azul. Los tapabocas hab铆an convertido a las funcionarias p煤blicas en raras odaliscas del Estado.
La protagonista es una mujer joven que es de los 煤ltimos habitantes que resisten en una ciudad costera, expuesta al peligro que viene del mar. Todo empez贸 el d铆a que el mar se llen贸 de algas rosadas y empez贸 a vomitar peces muertos, despu茅s desaparecieron las aves... un desastre que fue extendi茅ndose imparable. Vamos conociendo las restricciones y cambios en la vida cotidiana, los esfuerzos para seguir alimentando a la poblaci贸n y la tensi贸n en que viven los habitantes.
No me resulta f谩cil describir el tiempo del encierro, porque si algo caracterizaba el encierro era esa sensaci贸n de no tiempo.
La novela est谩 estructurada como un largo mon贸logo en que la protagonista - creo que no se dice el nombre - nos va informando de la situaci贸n, y sobre todo reflexiona sobre su relaci贸n con su madre y su ex-marido, y va mezclando recuerdos del pasado. Ella sobrevive cuidando a un ni帽o al que sus padres tienen alejado, ya que padece un s铆ndrome extra帽o que hace que carezca de la sensaci贸n de saciedad y por tanto necesite comer constantemente.
Fernanda Tr铆as es otra autora latina joven, de la generaci贸n de Fernanda Melchor, Mariana Enr铆quez, Mar铆a Fernanda Ampuero, Samanta Schweblin, M贸nica Ojeda, y otras, voces que han dado mucho y prometen todav铆a m谩s, una autora a seguir con un estilo contundente y trabajado.
Las nubes rosadas hab铆an desaparecido y el cielo ten铆a ahora ese tinte brillante, como de carne cruda chorreando su jugo sobre nosotros.
En conjunto el planteamiento es interesante y la creaci贸n del ambiente es muy destacable pero me ha gustado menos de lo que esperaba. Est谩 bien escrita y se esbozan un mont贸n de temas: desequilibrio ecol贸gico, la manera en que nos alimentamos de los animales, la complejidad de las relaciones humanas, el 'body horror' en sus muchas manifestaciones, la tiran铆a del Estado, la insolidaridad en momentos de crisis, etc. Pero me ha resultado bastante reiterativa y mon贸tona, no me he implicado en la narraci贸n. Le pongo 3* porque creo que tiene calidad literaria, pero el desarrollo a m铆 me ha aburrido un pel铆n.
La mugre rosa del t铆tulo es una especie de chopped/Soylent Green - de incierta procedencia - que es el 煤nico alimento disponible en un tiempo dist贸pico, que sigue a una indeterminada cat谩strofe ecol贸gica. Hay enfermedades arrastradas por un viento rojo que viene del mar y que causan toda una serie de horrores corporales. Mascarillas, hospitales colapsados, aislamiento en casa... Es curioso que se termin贸 de escribir en 2019, antes del coronavirus, pero tristemente es un ambiente que nos resulta familiar.
La recepcionista ten铆a un cartelito colgado en el bolsillo de su chaqueta. En la foto sonre铆a, pero delante de m铆, la boca y la nariz permanec铆an escondidas detr谩s de un barbijo azul. Los tapabocas hab铆an convertido a las funcionarias p煤blicas en raras odaliscas del Estado.
La protagonista es una mujer joven que es de los 煤ltimos habitantes que resisten en una ciudad costera, expuesta al peligro que viene del mar. Todo empez贸 el d铆a que el mar se llen贸 de algas rosadas y empez贸 a vomitar peces muertos, despu茅s desaparecieron las aves... un desastre que fue extendi茅ndose imparable. Vamos conociendo las restricciones y cambios en la vida cotidiana, los esfuerzos para seguir alimentando a la poblaci贸n y la tensi贸n en que viven los habitantes.
No me resulta f谩cil describir el tiempo del encierro, porque si algo caracterizaba el encierro era esa sensaci贸n de no tiempo.
La novela est谩 estructurada como un largo mon贸logo en que la protagonista - creo que no se dice el nombre - nos va informando de la situaci贸n, y sobre todo reflexiona sobre su relaci贸n con su madre y su ex-marido, y va mezclando recuerdos del pasado. Ella sobrevive cuidando a un ni帽o al que sus padres tienen alejado, ya que padece un s铆ndrome extra帽o que hace que carezca de la sensaci贸n de saciedad y por tanto necesite comer constantemente.
Fernanda Tr铆as es otra autora latina joven, de la generaci贸n de Fernanda Melchor, Mariana Enr铆quez, Mar铆a Fernanda Ampuero, Samanta Schweblin, M贸nica Ojeda, y otras, voces que han dado mucho y prometen todav铆a m谩s, una autora a seguir con un estilo contundente y trabajado.
Las nubes rosadas hab铆an desaparecido y el cielo ten铆a ahora ese tinte brillante, como de carne cruda chorreando su jugo sobre nosotros.
En conjunto el planteamiento es interesante y la creaci贸n del ambiente es muy destacable pero me ha gustado menos de lo que esperaba. Est谩 bien escrita y se esbozan un mont贸n de temas: desequilibrio ecol贸gico, la manera en que nos alimentamos de los animales, la complejidad de las relaciones humanas, el 'body horror' en sus muchas manifestaciones, la tiran铆a del Estado, la insolidaridad en momentos de crisis, etc. Pero me ha resultado bastante reiterativa y mon贸tona, no me he implicado en la narraci贸n. Le pongo 3* porque creo que tiene calidad literaria, pero el desarrollo a m铆 me ha aburrido un pel铆n.
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September 15, 2023PINK SLIME is originally titled MUGRE ROSA (Pink Dirt or Pink Grime) which is a fine title, but the word 'slime' is what got me interested in it because it reminded me of The Blob (the 1980s version was a PeptoBismol pink).
This novel by Fernanda Tr铆as (Heather Cleary translates) is no creature feature, though. Instead, it functions as a sombre ecological catastrophe novel. The narrator lives in a coastal city infested with a toxic form of algae. The fish have died, the rich have moved away, and the protagonist suffers through isolation, depression and a family drama.
It won't be the book for people who want a series of exciting thrills and chills. It's a quiet, sad slice of life that at times recalls some of the great catastrophe novels of a previous era (The Drowned World or Children of Men), or even sections of Roadside Picnic, but obviously with a new inflection.
This novel by Fernanda Tr铆as (Heather Cleary translates) is no creature feature, though. Instead, it functions as a sombre ecological catastrophe novel. The narrator lives in a coastal city infested with a toxic form of algae. The fish have died, the rich have moved away, and the protagonist suffers through isolation, depression and a family drama.
It won't be the book for people who want a series of exciting thrills and chills. It's a quiet, sad slice of life that at times recalls some of the great catastrophe novels of a previous era (The Drowned World or Children of Men), or even sections of Roadside Picnic, but obviously with a new inflection.
May 31, 2024
丿蹖卮亘 亘毓丿 丕夭 鬲賲賵賲 卮丿賳卮 趩卮賲丕賲賵 亘爻鬲賲 賵 禺賵丕亘賲 亘乇丿貙 亘蹖丿丕乇 讴賴 卮丿賲 鬲賲賵賲 賵噩賵丿賲 睾賲 亘賵丿貙 丕賳诏丕乇 乇賮鬲賴 亘賵丿賲 鬲賵 丿賱 丕賵賳 卮賴乇貙 賴乇趩蹖 禺賵賳丿賴 亘賵丿賲 乇賵 鬲賵 賲乇夭 禺賵丕亘 賵 亘蹖丿丕乇蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 讴乇丿賴 亘賵丿賲 賵 亘乇诏卮鬲賴 亘賵丿賲. 蹖讴 賱丨馗賴 丕賳诏丕乇 丕蹖賳 賲賳 亘賵丿賲 讴賴 賳卮爻鬲賴 乇賵蹖 賳蹖賲讴鬲 讴賳丕鈥屫� 亘賱賵丕乇 爻丕丨賱蹖 賵 丕夭 丿爻鬲 乇賮鬲賳 夭賳丿诏蹖 賵 丌丿賲鈥屬囏й� 夭賳丿诏蹖卮 乇賵 賲蹖鈥屫ㄛ屬嗁� 賵 賮賯胤 賳诏丕賴 賲蹖讴賳賴..
August 8, 2024
Rating/reviewing later. Need to sit with this one. Let it steep.
July 27, 2023
Horror disguised as literature. Beautifully written. A 'thinking-readers' book. Poetic prose in a provocative narrative.
January 2, 2022
Lo mejor: las descripciones, lo cinematogr谩fico, el mundo construido.
Lo peor: esos di谩logos entre cap铆tulos que era pura caca molida en verdad.
Lo peor: esos di谩logos entre cap铆tulos que era pura caca molida en verdad.
December 19, 2021
3.5
Ufff si perturbador, terrible, desgarrador, adictivo, dist贸pico, y todo lo dem谩s que han dicho.
Tiene una parte que intenta ser grotescamente tierna.
No me gustan las partes de los di谩logos esos sueltos que no entiendo.
Lo dem谩s si me gusta.
Algo le falta.
Quiz谩 que un poco que se disipe la niebla para comprenderlo mejor.
Se vale subirle una estrella despu茅s de escuchar el discurso que dio en la feria del libro de Guadalajara al recibir su premio??
Ufff si perturbador, terrible, desgarrador, adictivo, dist贸pico, y todo lo dem谩s que han dicho.
Tiene una parte que intenta ser grotescamente tierna.
No me gustan las partes de los di谩logos esos sueltos que no entiendo.
Lo dem谩s si me gusta.
Algo le falta.
Quiz谩 que un poco que se disipe la niebla para comprenderlo mejor.
Se vale subirle una estrella despu茅s de escuchar el discurso que dio en la feria del libro de Guadalajara al recibir su premio??
August 7, 2024
such an ominous and horrendously beautiful little read we have here. while the outside world is collapsing in on itself, there鈥檚 still our own interpersonal problems and unique traumas that need attention
November 24, 2024
鈥庘€庂佡傌з� 讴賴 趩蹖夭 讴賲蹖 賳亘賵丿.诏丕賴蹖 賮賯丿丕賳 賴賲賴 趩蹖夭 亘賵丿.趩賳丕賳
鈥庂呚┵� 亘賵丿 讴賴 賲蹖卮丿 亘賴 丌賳 趩爻亘蹖丿貨 丌賳鈥屬傌� 賲丨讴賲 讴賴 丨鬲蹖 賲蹖卮丿 乇賵蹖卮 夭賳丿诏蹖 亘爻丕夭蹖.
卮賴乇蹖 亘賳丿乇蹖 讴賴 丿趩丕乇 亘丨乇丕賳 夭蹖爻鬲 賲丨蹖胤蹖 卮丿賴 賵 乇賮鬲賴 乇賮鬲賴 趩賴乇賴 卮賴乇 毓丕乇蹖 丕夭 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲蹖卮賴
丌丿賲 賴丕 鬲睾蹖蹖乇 賲蹖讴賳賳貙 孬乇賵鬲賲賳丿丕 賲孬賱 賴賲蹖卮賴 乇丕賴蹖 亘乇丕蹖 賳噩丕鬲 倬蹖丿丕 賲蹖讴賳賳 賵 丌丿賲鈥屬囏й� 賲毓賲賵賱蹖 夭蹖乇 鬲賳丿亘丕丿 丨賵丕丿孬 賴夭蹖賳賴 賲蹖丿賳. 禺蹖賱蹖 丕夭 鬲賵氐蹖賮丕鬲 賲賳賵 蹖丕丿 丿賵乇丕賳 讴乇賵賳丕 丕賳丿丕禺鬲 ( 讴賴 亘丕 丕蹖賳讴賴 鬲噩乇亘賴鈥屫ж� 讴乇丿蹖賲 亘賴 丨丿蹖 丿賵乇貙 睾乇蹖亘 賵 賲丕賱蹖禺賵賱蹖丕蹖蹖賴 讴賴 丕賳诏丕乇 蹖賴 爻乇蹖丕賱 亘賱賳丿 趩賳丿 丿賴 賯爻賲鬲蹖 亘賵丿賴 賳賴 賵丕賯毓蹖鬲蹖 讴賴 趩賳丿 爻丕賱 亘丕賴丕卮 丿乇诏蹖乇 亘賵丿蹖賲)
鬲賵氐蹖賮丕鬲 賵 丕爻鬲毓丕乇賴鈥屬囏й� 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 毓丕賱蹖 亘賵丿貙 賯丕丿乇 亘賵丿 鬲賵 蹖讴 噩賲賱賴 鬲賲丕賲 丨賵丕爻 倬賳噩鈥屭з嗁� 賵 鬲丨乇蹖讴 讴賳賴 賵 賲禺丕胤亘賵 亘賴 丨丕賱 賵 賴賵丕蹖 丿賳蹖丕蹖蹖 讴賴 爻丕禺鬲賴貙 亘讴卮賵賳賴
丿丕爻鬲丕賳蹖 讴賴 丿乇爻鬲賴 賵丕賯毓蹖鬲 賳丿丕乇賴貙 賵賱蹖 噩賵乇蹖 乇賵丕蹖鬲 卮丿賴 讴賴 賳賲蹖鬲賵賳賲 丕夭 賮讴乇卮 亘蹖丕賲 亘蹖乇賵賳 賵 丨爻 賲蹖讴賳賲 噩丕蹖蹖 丕蹖賳 賮丕噩毓賴 乇禺 丿丕丿賴 丨鬲蹖 丕诏乇 丕賵賳 倬爻 匕賴賳 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 賵 鬲讴 鬲讴 讴爻丕蹖蹖 亘丕卮賴 讴賴 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘賵 禺賵賳丿賳 亘丕卮賴
賳賴 爻賴 亘賵丿 亘乇丕賲 賳賴 趩賴丕乇貙 鄢.鄣 賲蹖丿賲 亘賴卮.
鈽狅笍 賴賲蹖卮賴 丕丿丕蹖 丌丿賲 亘夭乇诏 賴丕 乇丕 丿乇 賲蹖鈥屫①堌必屬�. 丿賱賲丕賳 賲蹖鈥屫堌ж池� 夭賵丿 亘诏匕乇丿 賵 亘夭乇诏 卮賵蹖賲貙 趩賵賳 禺蹖丕賱 賲蹖讴乇丿蹖賲 鬲丕夭賴 丌賳 賲賵賯毓 丕爻鬲 讴賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 丌睾丕夭 賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 禺蹖丕賱 賲蹖讴乇丿蹖賲 賮賯胤 丿丕乇蹖賲 鬲賲乇蹖賳 賲蹖讴賳蹖賲 讴賴 亘乇丕蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 丌賲丕丿賴 卮賵蹖賲.
鈽狅笍 賴蹖趩 丌睾丕夭蹖 丿乇 讴丕乇 賳蹖爻鬲. 丌賳趩賴 亘賴 丕卮鬲亘丕賴 丌睾丕夭 賯賱賲丿丕丿 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗃屬� 氐乇賮丕賸 賱丨馗賴鈥屫й屫池� 讴賴 賲鬲賵噩賴 鬲睾蹖蹖乇蹖 賲蹖鈥屫促堐屬�.
鈽狅笍 賲卮讴賱 丕蹖賳噩丕爻鬲 讴賴 丌睾丕夭鈥屬囏� 賵 倬丕蹖丕賳鈥屬囏� 鬲丿丕禺賱 丿丕乇賳丿貨 禺蹖丕賱 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗃� 賲丕噩乇丕蹖蹖 乇賵 亘賴 倬丕蹖丕賳 丕爻鬲 丕賲丕 丿乇 賵丕賯毓 賲丕噩乇丕蹖蹖 丿蹖诏乇 丿丕乇丿 丌睾丕夭 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�.
鈽狅笍 蹖賴 賲乇夭 丌睾丕夭 賲乇夭 丿蹖诏賴鈥屫ж池�.
賲乇夭 賮丕氐賱賴鈥屰� 趩蹖賴責
賳夭丿蹖讴鈥屫臂屬� 賳賯胤賴 亘蹖賳 丿賵 趩蹖夭.
賵 賲乇夭 匕賴賳責
賮乇丕賲賵卮蹖.
鈽狅笍 丿賱賲 賲蹖鈥屫堌з囏� 賴賲蹖賳鈥屫� 鬲賵賯賮 讴賳賲貨 丿賱賲 賲蹖鈥屫堌з囏� 鬲丕 丨丿 丕賲讴丕賳 亘賴 丕蹖賳 賱丨馗賴 賳夭丿蹖讴 卮賵賲. 趩乇丕責 趩賵賳 鬲丕 倬蹖卮 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賱丨馗賴 賴賲賴 趩蹖夭 爻乇 噩丕蹖卮 亘賵丿. 亘賱賴貙 卮乇丕蹖胤蹖 賳丕 丕賲賳 亘賵丿貙 卮乇丕蹖胤蹖 賳丕賲胤賱賵亘 賵 賳丕讴丕賮蹖貙 丕賲丕 亘賴 丌賳 禺賵 诏乇賮鬲賴 亘賵丿賲.
鈽狅笍 賲蹖鬲乇爻蹖丿賲 丕诏乇 乇丕賴 賳乇賵賲 丿賳蹖丕 禺乇丕亘 卮賵丿 乇賵蹖 爻乇賲貙 賵 賲賳馗賵乇賲鈥屫ж� 丿賳蹖丕 夭賲丕賳 诏匕卮鬲賴 丕爻鬲 趩賵賳 夭賲丕賳 丨丕賱賽 丌爻蹖亘 倬匕蹖乇 賵 賲鬲夭賱夭賱蹖 讴賴 鬲丕 趩賳丿 爻丕毓鬲 賯亘賱 丿丕卮鬲賲 乇賵 亘賴 倬丕蹖丕賳 亘賵丿.
蹖讴 噩丕賴丕蹖蹖 亘乇丕賲 賳丕賲賮賴賵賲 亘賵丿 賲毓賲賵賱丕 丕亘鬲丿丕 賮氐賱 賴丕 讴賴 賲毓賱賵賲 賳亘賵丿 賲讴丕賱賲賴 亘蹖賳 趩賴 讴爻丕賳蹖 氐賵乇鬲 賲蹖诏蹖乇賴 賵 丕氐賱丕 賴丿賮卮 趩蹖 亘賵丿賴( 賯亘賱 賳賵卮鬲賳 乇蹖賵蹖 丿賵亘丕乇賴 丕蹖賳 賯爻賲鬲丕賵 賳诏丕賴 讴乇丿賲 賵 丕賱丕賳 賵丕囟丨 鬲乇賴) 賵賱蹖 亘賴 賳馗乇賲 丕丨鬲賲丕賱丕 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賱丕蹖賴 丕蹖 丿丕乇賴 讴賴 亘丕 禺賵丕賳卮 丿賵賲 亘賴鬲乇 禺賵丿卮賵 賳卮賵賳 亘丿賴
賳馗乇 丨丕賵蹖 丕爻倬賵蹖賱鈿狅笍
亘賴 賳馗乇賲 丨爻 毓賲蹖賯蹖 讴賴 乇丕賵蹖 亘賴 賲丕卅賵乇賵 丿丕卮鬲 卮丕蹖丿 趩蹖夭蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 禺賵丿卮 丕夭 丿賱賮丕 賲蹖诏蹖乇賮鬲 賵 诏匕卮鬲賴 乇賵 亘乇丕卮 毓夭蹖夭 賲蹖讴乇丿貙 丿賵 倬乇爻鬲丕乇 讴賴 亘蹖卮鬲乇 賲丕丿乇 亘賵丿賳 賵 丿賵 賲丕丿乇蹖 讴賴 讴賴 夭蹖乇 爻丕蹖賴 倬乇爻鬲丕乇蹖 讴賴 亘丕 讴賵丿讴 亘蹖卮鬲乇 丕乇鬲亘丕胤 賲蹖诏蹖乇賴 亘賴 丨丕卮蹖賴 乇賮鬲賴 賲蹖卮賳
乇丕賵蹖 鬲賵 蹖讴蹖卮賵賳 讴賵丿讴賴 賵 鬲賵 蹖讴蹖 丿蹖诏賴 倬乇爻鬲丕乇
禺丕胤乇丕鬲蹖 讴賴 賲丿丕賲 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賯爻賲鬲丕蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 亘賴 蹖丕丿 賲蹖丕乇賴 賵 亘丕 賱匕鬲 鬲讴乇丕乇卮賵賳 賲蹖讴賳賴 賵 噩爻 賲蹖讴賳賲 亘賴 噩丕賴丕蹖蹖 丕蹖賳 賴丕 丕賲蹖禺鬲賴 賲蹖卮賳 亘賴 賴賲 賵 睾蹖乇 賯丕亘賱 鬲賮讴蹖讴賳
亘乇禺賱丕賮 丌賳趩賴 賲賲讴賳 丕爻鬲 丿乇 丌睾丕夭 乇賲丕賳 丨爻 讴賳蹖丿貙 賱噩賳 氐賵乇鬲蹖 丕孬乇蹖 賵蹖乇丕賳鈥屫促囏臂� 賳蹖爻鬲貙 亘賱讴賴 丕爻鬲毓丕乇賴鈥屫й屸€屫池� 亘爻蹖丕乇 賯丿乇鬲賲賳丿 丕夭 賮乇賵倬丕卮蹖 丿賳蹖丕蹖 丕丨爻丕爻蹖貨 丿賳蹖丕蹖蹖 讴賴 賮賯胤 乇卮鬲賴鈥屬囏й� 囟毓蹖賮 禺丕胤乇賴 賳诏賴鈥屫簇з� 丿丕卮鬲賴鈥屫з嗀�.
鈥庂呚┵� 亘賵丿 讴賴 賲蹖卮丿 亘賴 丌賳 趩爻亘蹖丿貨 丌賳鈥屬傌� 賲丨讴賲 讴賴 丨鬲蹖 賲蹖卮丿 乇賵蹖卮 夭賳丿诏蹖 亘爻丕夭蹖.
卮賴乇蹖 亘賳丿乇蹖 讴賴 丿趩丕乇 亘丨乇丕賳 夭蹖爻鬲 賲丨蹖胤蹖 卮丿賴 賵 乇賮鬲賴 乇賮鬲賴 趩賴乇賴 卮賴乇 毓丕乇蹖 丕夭 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲蹖卮賴
丌丿賲 賴丕 鬲睾蹖蹖乇 賲蹖讴賳賳貙 孬乇賵鬲賲賳丿丕 賲孬賱 賴賲蹖卮賴 乇丕賴蹖 亘乇丕蹖 賳噩丕鬲 倬蹖丿丕 賲蹖讴賳賳 賵 丌丿賲鈥屬囏й� 賲毓賲賵賱蹖 夭蹖乇 鬲賳丿亘丕丿 丨賵丕丿孬 賴夭蹖賳賴 賲蹖丿賳. 禺蹖賱蹖 丕夭 鬲賵氐蹖賮丕鬲 賲賳賵 蹖丕丿 丿賵乇丕賳 讴乇賵賳丕 丕賳丿丕禺鬲 ( 讴賴 亘丕 丕蹖賳讴賴 鬲噩乇亘賴鈥屫ж� 讴乇丿蹖賲 亘賴 丨丿蹖 丿賵乇貙 睾乇蹖亘 賵 賲丕賱蹖禺賵賱蹖丕蹖蹖賴 讴賴 丕賳诏丕乇 蹖賴 爻乇蹖丕賱 亘賱賳丿 趩賳丿 丿賴 賯爻賲鬲蹖 亘賵丿賴 賳賴 賵丕賯毓蹖鬲蹖 讴賴 趩賳丿 爻丕賱 亘丕賴丕卮 丿乇诏蹖乇 亘賵丿蹖賲)
鬲賵氐蹖賮丕鬲 賵 丕爻鬲毓丕乇賴鈥屬囏й� 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 毓丕賱蹖 亘賵丿貙 賯丕丿乇 亘賵丿 鬲賵 蹖讴 噩賲賱賴 鬲賲丕賲 丨賵丕爻 倬賳噩鈥屭з嗁� 賵 鬲丨乇蹖讴 讴賳賴 賵 賲禺丕胤亘賵 亘賴 丨丕賱 賵 賴賵丕蹖 丿賳蹖丕蹖蹖 讴賴 爻丕禺鬲賴貙 亘讴卮賵賳賴
丿丕爻鬲丕賳蹖 讴賴 丿乇爻鬲賴 賵丕賯毓蹖鬲 賳丿丕乇賴貙 賵賱蹖 噩賵乇蹖 乇賵丕蹖鬲 卮丿賴 讴賴 賳賲蹖鬲賵賳賲 丕夭 賮讴乇卮 亘蹖丕賲 亘蹖乇賵賳 賵 丨爻 賲蹖讴賳賲 噩丕蹖蹖 丕蹖賳 賮丕噩毓賴 乇禺 丿丕丿賴 丨鬲蹖 丕诏乇 丕賵賳 倬爻 匕賴賳 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 賵 鬲讴 鬲讴 讴爻丕蹖蹖 亘丕卮賴 讴賴 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘賵 禺賵賳丿賳 亘丕卮賴
賳賴 爻賴 亘賵丿 亘乇丕賲 賳賴 趩賴丕乇貙 鄢.鄣 賲蹖丿賲 亘賴卮.
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賵 賲乇夭 匕賴賳責
賮乇丕賲賵卮蹖.
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蹖讴 噩丕賴丕蹖蹖 亘乇丕賲 賳丕賲賮賴賵賲 亘賵丿 賲毓賲賵賱丕 丕亘鬲丿丕 賮氐賱 賴丕 讴賴 賲毓賱賵賲 賳亘賵丿 賲讴丕賱賲賴 亘蹖賳 趩賴 讴爻丕賳蹖 氐賵乇鬲 賲蹖诏蹖乇賴 賵 丕氐賱丕 賴丿賮卮 趩蹖 亘賵丿賴( 賯亘賱 賳賵卮鬲賳 乇蹖賵蹖 丿賵亘丕乇賴 丕蹖賳 賯爻賲鬲丕賵 賳诏丕賴 讴乇丿賲 賵 丕賱丕賳 賵丕囟丨 鬲乇賴) 賵賱蹖 亘賴 賳馗乇賲 丕丨鬲賲丕賱丕 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賱丕蹖賴 丕蹖 丿丕乇賴 讴賴 亘丕 禺賵丕賳卮 丿賵賲 亘賴鬲乇 禺賵丿卮賵 賳卮賵賳 亘丿賴
賳馗乇 丨丕賵蹖 丕爻倬賵蹖賱鈿狅笍
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July 28, 2024
For fans of Tender is the Flesh and Fever Dream. An atmospheric, reflective story about an epidemic stemming from the appearance of algae in an unnamed coastal city.
A woman charged with looking after a boy, Mauro, with an insatiable hunger alternates visits between her mother living inland from the diseased areas of their hometown and her ex-husband, Max, who's hospitalized for chronic care due to the indecipherable illness. She reflects on the loss of lives, the loss of livelihood, and the loss of her past and memories. But while the stakes seem high, the story itself is not urgent鈥攊t winds and wends like a river toward an inevitable waterfall. Will she make it out of the country as prices for food and the new 'pink slime' supplement go up and up? What will happen to Mauro and Max in their respective situations? How do we hold onto humanity amidst chaos and confusion?
The book has a very strong and clear tone, communicated well through Cleary's flawless translation. The short chapters are followed by unspecific dialogue between two characters鈥攖he main character and her ex-husband? And her mother? And her childhood nanny? And her lost friends? It's unclear and adds to the disorienting and mysterious feeling of the book as a whole.
However, I felt overall there was a repetitive nature to the story, despite it only being 220-ish pages, that made it all feel a bit blas茅. Even when the world around her feels so stressful, I never felt concerned for her as a character. I don't even know if she felt worried for herself, instead embracing a sort of recklessness that comes with realizing the world around you is forever changed, and so what if you don't survive to see the end?
There were a few passages that really struck me, and I think the author has an interesting point-of-view. While the book overall didn't blow me away, I'd be curious to read more from her and recommend for readers who appreciate more vibes than plot.
A woman charged with looking after a boy, Mauro, with an insatiable hunger alternates visits between her mother living inland from the diseased areas of their hometown and her ex-husband, Max, who's hospitalized for chronic care due to the indecipherable illness. She reflects on the loss of lives, the loss of livelihood, and the loss of her past and memories. But while the stakes seem high, the story itself is not urgent鈥攊t winds and wends like a river toward an inevitable waterfall. Will she make it out of the country as prices for food and the new 'pink slime' supplement go up and up? What will happen to Mauro and Max in their respective situations? How do we hold onto humanity amidst chaos and confusion?
The book has a very strong and clear tone, communicated well through Cleary's flawless translation. The short chapters are followed by unspecific dialogue between two characters鈥攖he main character and her ex-husband? And her mother? And her childhood nanny? And her lost friends? It's unclear and adds to the disorienting and mysterious feeling of the book as a whole.
However, I felt overall there was a repetitive nature to the story, despite it only being 220-ish pages, that made it all feel a bit blas茅. Even when the world around her feels so stressful, I never felt concerned for her as a character. I don't even know if she felt worried for herself, instead embracing a sort of recklessness that comes with realizing the world around you is forever changed, and so what if you don't survive to see the end?
There were a few passages that really struck me, and I think the author has an interesting point-of-view. While the book overall didn't blow me away, I'd be curious to read more from her and recommend for readers who appreciate more vibes than plot.
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December 28, 2023Eco horror at its most fucked up/disturbing/unsettling. Pick your poison. All apply. Living in a Port City, our unnamed narrator is a nanny for a boy with a syndrome where he can鈥檛 regulate his appetite 鈥� he is always hungry. Around them, the world is going to shit. Toxic algae has killed all the fish, and exposure to a 鈥渞ed wind鈥� leads to a flesh-flensing illness. Though going outdoors is a gamble, our narrator, when not caring for her ward, visits her mother squatting in the rich part of town and her chronically ill husband bound to the local hospital. Pink Slime brings back memories of lockdown, the isolation, the fear of going outside, and the disconnection from those we love. It鈥檚 not a particularly gory book, but there鈥檚 a visceral intimacy to the prose that鈥檚 genuinely unsettling. The narrator鈥檚 relationship with the young boy is complex. There鈥檚 love, but there鈥檚 also a sense of revulsion, especially when she fails to stop the boy from over-eating. I grant that this novel won鈥檛 be for everyone. The breakdown of society, the human body, and the environment is not escapist fare. I, however, thought it was terrific. Hard to read. Hard to put down. (Also, kudos to Heather Cleary for her excellent translation).
April 24, 2024
Mugre rosa tiene m煤ltiples aristas. Por un lado, es una obra sobre la corporalidad, pero no de cuerpos sanos o cotidianos sino de cuerpos enfermos. 脡stos son el recipiente de una afecci贸n que azota a una ciudad portuaria, que por m煤ltiples gui帽os deducimos que es Montevideo.
El ex marido de la protagonista esta infectado por esta enfermedad misteriosa que trae el viento; un ni帽o a cargo de ella sufre un s铆ndrome alimenticio raro, la ni帽era de su infancia muere de c谩ncer y la sociedad toda est谩 afectada por el viento t贸xico que descama la piel. Todos cuerpos expuestos, degradados.
Por otro lado, es una novela sobre la maternidad. Hay tensi贸n y conflicto entre la protagonista y su madre; entre la primera y el ni帽o (lo cuida como si fuera su hijo) y entre ella y su nana en el pasado (fue su madre afectiva)
La distop铆a de Tr铆as es una novela de im谩genes; la prosa esplendida muestra la ciudad sufriendo, sucia, abandonada, latiendo como un moribundo entre vientos, niebla e incendios. Hay un di谩logo, un reflejo mutuo entre los habitantes y su h谩bitat.
En una entrevista la escritora recuerda a su amigo y maestro, Mario Levrero, quien le dijo que 鈥渉ay que tener cuidado con lo que se escribe que se puede volver realidad鈥�. Mugre rosa se termina de escribir justo antes de la pandemia Covid.
El ex marido de la protagonista esta infectado por esta enfermedad misteriosa que trae el viento; un ni帽o a cargo de ella sufre un s铆ndrome alimenticio raro, la ni帽era de su infancia muere de c谩ncer y la sociedad toda est谩 afectada por el viento t贸xico que descama la piel. Todos cuerpos expuestos, degradados.
Por otro lado, es una novela sobre la maternidad. Hay tensi贸n y conflicto entre la protagonista y su madre; entre la primera y el ni帽o (lo cuida como si fuera su hijo) y entre ella y su nana en el pasado (fue su madre afectiva)
La distop铆a de Tr铆as es una novela de im谩genes; la prosa esplendida muestra la ciudad sufriendo, sucia, abandonada, latiendo como un moribundo entre vientos, niebla e incendios. Hay un di谩logo, un reflejo mutuo entre los habitantes y su h谩bitat.
En una entrevista la escritora recuerda a su amigo y maestro, Mario Levrero, quien le dijo que 鈥渉ay que tener cuidado con lo que se escribe que se puede volver realidad鈥�. Mugre rosa se termina de escribir justo antes de la pandemia Covid.
March 14, 2022
Me hab铆an gustado los tres libros anteriores de Tr铆as, pero en este caso la novela no logr贸 interesarme. Llama la atenci贸n, eso s铆, el sentido prof茅tico de varios pasajes. Pero la historia en s铆 me result贸 siempre ajena.
August 23, 2024
TW/CW: Language, toxic family relationships, dog death (implied), murder, fat shaming
SPOILERS
About the book: In a city ravaged by a mysterious plague, a woman tries to understand why her world is falling apart. An algae bloom has poisoned the previously pristine air that blows in from the sea. Inland, a secretive corporation churns out the only food anyone can afford鈥攁 revolting pink paste, made of an unknown substance. In the short, desperate breaks between deadly windstorms, our narrator stubbornly tends to her few remaining with her difficult but vulnerable mother; with the ex-husband for whom she still harbors feelings; with the boy she nannies, whose parents sent him away even as terrible threats loomed. Yet as conditions outside deteriorate further, her commitment to remaining in place only grows鈥攅ven if staying means being left behind.
Release Date:
Genre: Horror
Pages: 240
Rating: 猸� 猸�
What I Liked:
1. Loved the writing
2. Tone of book was so good
What I Didn't Like:
1. Forgettable
2. Boring
3. Halfway through nothing happens
Overall Thoughts:
{{Disclaimer: I write my review as I read}}
I wish more things were explained like about the groceries. How is she still getting milk when things are contaminated? Or fruits/veggies?
She decides to leave Mauro when he's already had issues with choking on random items and she knows that he can not stop eating even if it's things that are unedible.
Why doesn't she just live with her mother since she seems to go visit her all the time? I know that she said that it had a higher contamination where her mother was staying, but wouldn't she be picking up some of that every time she goes and sees her? I swear she goes to see her at least three times a week that's got to do something to her system. Plus she's eating the food that her mother is growing in the garden aren't those contaminated? So many questions.
Ends on this rambling mess. Not sure what any of that means.
Final Thoughts:
When I first started this book I really loved how it was written and the tone of it, but as I progressed through the book I found it becoming more and more mundane. Nothing really happens. I love apocalyptic/ dystopian books so I was very excited to read this book, but like I said you're waiting and waiting for something more to happen and it just peters through the story. She goes to her morning routine, she gets a cab, she sees her mom, she takes care of Mauro, she goes and sees Max and repeat we keep going over and over everything that's already happened.
I know in books like this they don't really answer a lot of questions it's just that I had so many of them. I wanted to know how they didn't have enough food but everybody still had TV to watch. I wanted to know how money was still working in a life like this when the whole world was falling apart. There are so many questions - not enough answers and just a slow boring story by the end.
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Thanks to Netgalley and Scribner for this advanced copy of the book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
SPOILERS
About the book: In a city ravaged by a mysterious plague, a woman tries to understand why her world is falling apart. An algae bloom has poisoned the previously pristine air that blows in from the sea. Inland, a secretive corporation churns out the only food anyone can afford鈥攁 revolting pink paste, made of an unknown substance. In the short, desperate breaks between deadly windstorms, our narrator stubbornly tends to her few remaining with her difficult but vulnerable mother; with the ex-husband for whom she still harbors feelings; with the boy she nannies, whose parents sent him away even as terrible threats loomed. Yet as conditions outside deteriorate further, her commitment to remaining in place only grows鈥攅ven if staying means being left behind.
Release Date:
Genre: Horror
Pages: 240
Rating: 猸� 猸�
What I Liked:
1. Loved the writing
2. Tone of book was so good
What I Didn't Like:
1. Forgettable
2. Boring
3. Halfway through nothing happens
Overall Thoughts:
{{Disclaimer: I write my review as I read}}
I wish more things were explained like about the groceries. How is she still getting milk when things are contaminated? Or fruits/veggies?
She decides to leave Mauro when he's already had issues with choking on random items and she knows that he can not stop eating even if it's things that are unedible.
Why doesn't she just live with her mother since she seems to go visit her all the time? I know that she said that it had a higher contamination where her mother was staying, but wouldn't she be picking up some of that every time she goes and sees her? I swear she goes to see her at least three times a week that's got to do something to her system. Plus she's eating the food that her mother is growing in the garden aren't those contaminated? So many questions.
Ends on this rambling mess. Not sure what any of that means.
Final Thoughts:
When I first started this book I really loved how it was written and the tone of it, but as I progressed through the book I found it becoming more and more mundane. Nothing really happens. I love apocalyptic/ dystopian books so I was very excited to read this book, but like I said you're waiting and waiting for something more to happen and it just peters through the story. She goes to her morning routine, she gets a cab, she sees her mom, she takes care of Mauro, she goes and sees Max and repeat we keep going over and over everything that's already happened.
I know in books like this they don't really answer a lot of questions it's just that I had so many of them. I wanted to know how they didn't have enough food but everybody still had TV to watch. I wanted to know how money was still working in a life like this when the whole world was falling apart. There are so many questions - not enough answers and just a slow boring story by the end.
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Thanks to Netgalley and Scribner for this advanced copy of the book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
October 29, 2021
驴Qu茅 tan da帽ino puede ser un mal final para una obra prometedora?
Esta novela genera un impacto emocional al ser una especie de distop铆a que guarda semejanzas muy estrechas con lo sucedido en 2020, de ah铆 su 茅xito y el ruido que ha venido generando. La autora nos conduce a un mundo confuso, ruinoso, incierto y aislado, donde se mueve su protagonista. Esta mujer se mueve entre un presente que parece desplomarse a cada momento y un pasado lleno de dolores, abandonos y renuncias al que se aferra pese al evidente dolor que le ha causado. En este sentido, la novela expresa de una manera po茅tica algunos pasajes donde la soledad y la introspecci贸n la llevan a reflexionar sobre sus contradicciones en un momento tan complejo donde la vida se ha suspendido de manera indefinida.
A la protagonista se le suman otros personajes complejos los cuales, gracias a la buena mano de la escritora, despiertan simpat铆as y rechazo dadas sus actitudes. Lo interesante de todos estos seres es su incapacidad de transformarse y asimilar los cambios que ha tra铆do la plaga ca铆da sobre sus vidas. Es su humanidad parad贸jica, su incapacidad de reconocer a otros, de empatizar, de volcarse hacia ellos, de aprovechar esta oportunidad para enmendar sus errores, lo que los hace tan miserables y condenados a hundirse en su propio desespero.
Ahora bien, la autora plantea una serie de conflictos pasados y potenciales que, unidos a una serie de hechos importantes que son apenas insinuados, nos dejan con ganas de saber m谩s y de establecer las conexiones necesarias para entender las razones que llevan a su protagonista a encarar varias decisiones. Lastimosamente, la autora cierra todo con un final abierto de lo m谩s anticlim谩tico que al ser tan insatisfactorio derrumba todas las expectativas sembradas en la obra. Soy partidario de los finales abiertos, pero en este caso, la autora lo hace de una manera precipitada, dejando muchas tramas se帽aladas m谩s no resueltas, y peor a煤n, abandonando (como todos sus seres cercanos en la ficci贸n) a la protagonista a su suerte, como si las ganas de avanzar la obra y culminarla de manera digna fueran carcomidas por la misteriosa enfermedad de la que habla la novela.
Esta novela genera un impacto emocional al ser una especie de distop铆a que guarda semejanzas muy estrechas con lo sucedido en 2020, de ah铆 su 茅xito y el ruido que ha venido generando. La autora nos conduce a un mundo confuso, ruinoso, incierto y aislado, donde se mueve su protagonista. Esta mujer se mueve entre un presente que parece desplomarse a cada momento y un pasado lleno de dolores, abandonos y renuncias al que se aferra pese al evidente dolor que le ha causado. En este sentido, la novela expresa de una manera po茅tica algunos pasajes donde la soledad y la introspecci贸n la llevan a reflexionar sobre sus contradicciones en un momento tan complejo donde la vida se ha suspendido de manera indefinida.
A la protagonista se le suman otros personajes complejos los cuales, gracias a la buena mano de la escritora, despiertan simpat铆as y rechazo dadas sus actitudes. Lo interesante de todos estos seres es su incapacidad de transformarse y asimilar los cambios que ha tra铆do la plaga ca铆da sobre sus vidas. Es su humanidad parad贸jica, su incapacidad de reconocer a otros, de empatizar, de volcarse hacia ellos, de aprovechar esta oportunidad para enmendar sus errores, lo que los hace tan miserables y condenados a hundirse en su propio desespero.
Ahora bien, la autora plantea una serie de conflictos pasados y potenciales que, unidos a una serie de hechos importantes que son apenas insinuados, nos dejan con ganas de saber m谩s y de establecer las conexiones necesarias para entender las razones que llevan a su protagonista a encarar varias decisiones. Lastimosamente, la autora cierra todo con un final abierto de lo m谩s anticlim谩tico que al ser tan insatisfactorio derrumba todas las expectativas sembradas en la obra. Soy partidario de los finales abiertos, pero en este caso, la autora lo hace de una manera precipitada, dejando muchas tramas se帽aladas m谩s no resueltas, y peor a煤n, abandonando (como todos sus seres cercanos en la ficci贸n) a la protagonista a su suerte, como si las ganas de avanzar la obra y culminarla de manera digna fueran carcomidas por la misteriosa enfermedad de la que habla la novela.
July 14, 2024
Pink Slime is my new favorite book at the moment.
"The beginning is never the beginning. What we often mistake for the beginning is just the moment we realize something has changed."
Our narrator's world is in the middle of a strange and ongoing eco-collapse. The ocean spews forth dead fish. Divers are sent into its depths and determine the cause is a toxic algae, and within weeks they are dead from a new incurable illness that causes their skin to literally slough off. Birds disappear. The locals are panicked. Fresh food becomes scarce and a new factory is designed to stretch what animal meat there is as far as it can by grinding it into a thick pink paste. Alarms begin going off to warn pedestrians to hoof it inside before the red winds arrive, carrying with it traces of poisonous algae. The only relief they receive is from the thick fog that settles over everything in between winds.
Instead of fleeing, our narrator sticks it out and continues to care for a young boy who suffers from a medical condition that causes him to have an insatiable hunger, while also visiting her ex-husband at The Clinic who has been diagnosed with a chronic version of the infectious illness, and navigating her messy relationship with her stubborn mother.
Oh my gosh you guys. This is so beautifully written. The story skillfully moves the reader through the fear and frustration and devastation of the climate crisis, while toggling back to the subtle moments that our narrator experienced, the ones that would usher in these unbelievable changes, armed now with the knowledge of how pivotal those moments would be in the coming days and weeks. Kind of like how you don't know the last time you're seeing someone is the last time you'll ever see them...
It's full of dread and bad decisions, even when the desire is to do the right thing, and it closes as it opened, with no clear beginning or ending in sight.
And reader, I am totally ok with that.
"The beginning is never the beginning. What we often mistake for the beginning is just the moment we realize something has changed."
Our narrator's world is in the middle of a strange and ongoing eco-collapse. The ocean spews forth dead fish. Divers are sent into its depths and determine the cause is a toxic algae, and within weeks they are dead from a new incurable illness that causes their skin to literally slough off. Birds disappear. The locals are panicked. Fresh food becomes scarce and a new factory is designed to stretch what animal meat there is as far as it can by grinding it into a thick pink paste. Alarms begin going off to warn pedestrians to hoof it inside before the red winds arrive, carrying with it traces of poisonous algae. The only relief they receive is from the thick fog that settles over everything in between winds.
Instead of fleeing, our narrator sticks it out and continues to care for a young boy who suffers from a medical condition that causes him to have an insatiable hunger, while also visiting her ex-husband at The Clinic who has been diagnosed with a chronic version of the infectious illness, and navigating her messy relationship with her stubborn mother.
Oh my gosh you guys. This is so beautifully written. The story skillfully moves the reader through the fear and frustration and devastation of the climate crisis, while toggling back to the subtle moments that our narrator experienced, the ones that would usher in these unbelievable changes, armed now with the knowledge of how pivotal those moments would be in the coming days and weeks. Kind of like how you don't know the last time you're seeing someone is the last time you'll ever see them...
It's full of dread and bad decisions, even when the desire is to do the right thing, and it closes as it opened, with no clear beginning or ending in sight.
And reader, I am totally ok with that.
December 27, 2020
La verdad es que no s茅 c贸mo me siento. Acabo de terminarlo y creo que todav铆a no decant贸.
Amo las distopias, pero a esta le falta ese toque de irrealidad que me fascina. Es muy cercano, con comportamientos esperables, muy uruguayo. Nos habla de un hospital de Cl铆nicas saturado, y yo viviendo a una cuadra, hace dos d铆as lo veo que una luz roja ominosa que parpadea. De fondo hay mascarillas, polic铆as, pol铆tica y relaciones humanas complejas, de cerca la niebla, la pesadumbre 驴la depresi贸n? qu茅 aparentemente siempre acompa帽贸 a este personaje, y que este contexto de emergencia social lo hizo m谩s que profundizar.
En fin, creo que me gust贸, sin dudas engancha y lo le铆 muy r谩pido. No lo lean en domingo.
Amo las distopias, pero a esta le falta ese toque de irrealidad que me fascina. Es muy cercano, con comportamientos esperables, muy uruguayo. Nos habla de un hospital de Cl铆nicas saturado, y yo viviendo a una cuadra, hace dos d铆as lo veo que una luz roja ominosa que parpadea. De fondo hay mascarillas, polic铆as, pol铆tica y relaciones humanas complejas, de cerca la niebla, la pesadumbre 驴la depresi贸n? qu茅 aparentemente siempre acompa帽贸 a este personaje, y que este contexto de emergencia social lo hizo m谩s que profundizar.
En fin, creo que me gust贸, sin dudas engancha y lo le铆 muy r谩pido. No lo lean en domingo.
November 4, 2021
Estupendo libro, merece la pena profundicar en 茅l.
August 19, 2024
Not much to say. This is my fourth time picking up a book translated by Heather Cleary and I鈥檓 honestly a fan. I don鈥檛 know how involved they鈥檙e in picking the work they translate but I tend to be satisfied.
Pink Slime is a slow dark literary dystopia that follows a woman taking care of people during a strange pandemic.
If I hadn鈥檛 known this had been written in Spanish, I would have assumed the author was Spanish/Latinx. It鈥檚 got this slow ass, literary, reminiscing style that most work writing in Spanish has. I enjoyed it but some things like Mauro鈥檚 disease (Prader-Willi?) or the pandemic weren鈥檛 as fleshed out as I would鈥檝e liked. And I can鈥檛 really call it a character study because it just felt a bit too vague overall.
Pink Slime is a slow dark literary dystopia that follows a woman taking care of people during a strange pandemic.
If I hadn鈥檛 known this had been written in Spanish, I would have assumed the author was Spanish/Latinx. It鈥檚 got this slow ass, literary, reminiscing style that most work writing in Spanish has. I enjoyed it but some things like Mauro鈥檚 disease (Prader-Willi?) or the pandemic weren鈥檛 as fleshed out as I would鈥檝e liked. And I can鈥檛 really call it a character study because it just felt a bit too vague overall.
September 12, 2023
Who could have imagined the sonic emptiness of a city without the buzzing of insects, but also without the slow grumble of elevators or the murmur of radios through the walls, all those artificial things that - I realise now - were what we called life.
And how does one write the environmental catastrophe that is upon us? The absences it produces across the whole register of what is known as everyday life (perceptible and imperceptible), but also those absences that have nothing to do with the human? Tr铆as offers her novel as an attempt at such an undertaking, its detached narrator (I do wonder if the flat affect is the affect of the Anthropocene - how else to deal with the enormity of it?), and a particular attention to the animals. As for the latter, I suppose it could be seen as a sort of a sequel to Ana Paula Maia's , as what Maia describes in her book is a cause of what transpires in Tr铆as' work. And to add another grim layer upon the already omnipresent grimness, I can only imagine Agustina Bazterrica's exquisite is a sequel to . Veritable Trilogy of Flesh.
And how does one write the environmental catastrophe that is upon us? The absences it produces across the whole register of what is known as everyday life (perceptible and imperceptible), but also those absences that have nothing to do with the human? Tr铆as offers her novel as an attempt at such an undertaking, its detached narrator (I do wonder if the flat affect is the affect of the Anthropocene - how else to deal with the enormity of it?), and a particular attention to the animals. As for the latter, I suppose it could be seen as a sort of a sequel to Ana Paula Maia's , as what Maia describes in her book is a cause of what transpires in Tr铆as' work. And to add another grim layer upon the already omnipresent grimness, I can only imagine Agustina Bazterrica's exquisite is a sequel to . Veritable Trilogy of Flesh.
October 13, 2021
Empec茅 con mucha emoci贸n a leer a Fernanda porque este mismo a帽o le hab铆a le铆do su novela corta "La Azotea" la cual me pareci贸 brillante. Mugre Rosa la tom茅 con emoci贸n y al poco tiempo se me iba haciendo cada vez m谩s larga y pesada. Algo no me dejaba disfrutarla como lo hice con el otro libro. Pero tambi茅n hab铆a algo que me jalaba a continuar la lectura, quer铆a terminar de entender qu茅 era esa "pandemia" que ten铆a a ese pueblo azotado, gente que se le ca铆a la piel, gente que viv铆a encerrada pero a la par un ni帽o gordo que le hac铆a la vida imposible a la protagonista.
Leer Mugre Rosa es como caminar en un pueblo desolado donde no pasa nada a simple vista pero todo est谩 en los detalles, ah铆 es donde radica la belleza de la historia. Este libro me hizo darme cuenta que, despu茅s de todos mis a帽os de lectora, ya no puedo decir "me gust贸 o no me gust贸" sino que tus sentidos se van amplificando para ver cosas que a simple vista no ver铆as, a darte el lujo de releer un p谩rrafo solo por lo bien que est谩 escrito.
M谩s all谩 de que te guste o no la historia, con Mugre Rosa aprend铆 a disfrutar del viaje. Fernanda sigue escribiendo voraz y claro que le voy a leer lo dem谩s que saque.
Leer Mugre Rosa es como caminar en un pueblo desolado donde no pasa nada a simple vista pero todo est谩 en los detalles, ah铆 es donde radica la belleza de la historia. Este libro me hizo darme cuenta que, despu茅s de todos mis a帽os de lectora, ya no puedo decir "me gust贸 o no me gust贸" sino que tus sentidos se van amplificando para ver cosas que a simple vista no ver铆as, a darte el lujo de releer un p谩rrafo solo por lo bien que est谩 escrito.
M谩s all谩 de que te guste o no la historia, con Mugre Rosa aprend铆 a disfrutar del viaje. Fernanda sigue escribiendo voraz y claro que le voy a leer lo dem谩s que saque.
November 30, 2024
As a dystopian novel, I didn't feel this covered enough new ground. The setting is a coastal city semi-abandoned because of a poisonous red fog blowing in from the sea.
Our main is a woman who has chosen not to leave the infected city, in order to be able to continue visiting her sick ex-husband in the hospital as well as take care of a handicapped boy. Her mother however has moved away to a safer town and keeps insisting she leaves as soon as she can.
The novel does a little bit of everything and as a result none of these storylines really become central, which made it difficult for me to really engage or care... It's by no means a bad book though.
Our main is a woman who has chosen not to leave the infected city, in order to be able to continue visiting her sick ex-husband in the hospital as well as take care of a handicapped boy. Her mother however has moved away to a safer town and keeps insisting she leaves as soon as she can.
The novel does a little bit of everything and as a result none of these storylines really become central, which made it difficult for me to really engage or care... It's by no means a bad book though.
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