Attention all book lovers and enthusiasts of contemporary Mexican literature! 📚✨
Prepare to immerse yourself in another captivating session of our exclusive Book Club, dedicated to exploring the diverse landscape of modern Mexican literary voices. 🇲🇽📖
🗓️ Join us for our upcoming session, where we will delve into the thought-provoking work of Jorge Comensal, a mystery novel about zoology, addiction, and family crises, about ghosts, the climate crisis, black holes, and disoriented masculinity.
Here is the description of Este vacío que hierve:
On May 28, 2029, during a heat wave, flames consume the Bosque de Chapultepec, the park where the Panteón de Dolores and the city zoo are located. It doesn’t look like it was accidental —the blaze spread from the pyre lit by a man dressed as a priest in the cemetery’s mass grave. Almost all trees and animals in the park perish in the fire. From then on, Rebeca and Karina’s story intersects with Silverio’s, caretaker at the cemetery and father of Daenerys, a precocious climate and environmental activist. These characters set out on journeys of reinvention that come to be after solving several enigmas: who was the priest burned at the Panteón? How did Rebeca get the bottle of brandy with which she got drunk? What happened to Karina’s parents 18 years ago? How do sharks mate? What will happen to the emu egg that survived the fire? And more.
Anyone interested in practising their Spanish is more than welcome!
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