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Tzompantli nuestro de cada día / Our Daily Tzompantli

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Expected 16 Mar 27
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«En cada relato, el narrador expone de diferentes maneras la idea de que el más allá mexicano es un más acá.» —Enrique Serna

Este libro reúne una serie de relatos desbordantes de ingenio, agudeza y un humor negro profundamente mexicano. Inspirado en el tzompantli prehispánico, Fernando Bonilla construye aquí un mural contemporáneo sobre nuestra agridulce relación con la muerte.

A través de una narrativa ágil, las páginas de este libro nos llevan a recorrer la delgada línea que separa la Tierra del inframundo. Desde los enredos burocráticos que surgen cuando los difuntos pierden su lugar asignado hasta las peripecias de aquellos que rozaron lo macabro y regresaron para contarlo, cada cuento juega con los roles y las máscaras que la muerte adopta en nuestro lenguaje cotidiano.

El autor no reniega de su lúdica trayectoria como actor ni de su capacidad satírica como director de escena y utiliza estas herramientas para demostrar que la muerte también sabe reírse de sí misma.

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“In each story, the narrator explores, in different ways, the idea that the Mexican afterlife is a ‘here and now.’” —Enrique Serna

This book brings together a series of stories brimming with wit, sharpness, and a deeply Mexican brand of dark humor. Inspired by the tzompantli of pre-Hispanic times, Fernando Bonilla constructs here a contemporary mural depicting our bittersweet relationship with death.

Through a fluid narrative, the pages of this book take us on a journey along the fine line that separates the Earth from the underworld. From the bureaucratic entanglements that arise when the deceased lose their assigned place to the adventures of those who brushed with the macabre and returned to tell the tale, each story plays with the roles and masks that death adopts in our everyday language.

The author does not shy away from his playful background as an actor or his satirical flair as a stage director, and he uses these tools to show that death, too, knows how to laugh at itself.

152 pages, Paperback

Expected publication March 16, 2027

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