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259 pages, Hardcover
Published March 1, 2021
“Está tan lleno de culpa que siempre le es difícil saber si lo que oye son lamentos o si es el viento empujando la arena”.
perhaps the greatest test of human will is making up your mind.a spellbinding tale of the desert and violence and love and grief and the desert and delirium and suffering and echoes and the desert, clyo mendoza's fury (furia) is an extraordinary work of unforgettable fiction. the mexican poet and author's debut novel is swarming with striking imagery and a prose so ensorcelling and incantatory that it renders the reader rapt. mendoza's plotting, her effortless narrative entwining, the conjured voices peopling her bold tale — each are simply remarkable. fury pulsates with a wrenching rhythm, an ineluctable song that dazzles, disorients, and destroys. this is a masterful story and mendoza is a commanding storyteller.
the flies confused the white area between his eyelids with the cuts in the skin of the fruit.*translated from the spanish by christina macsweeney (luiselli, barrera, saldaña parís, et al.)