Carnaval Fever by Ruano, Yuliana Ortiz
Carnaval Fever by Ruano, Yuliana Ortiz

Carnaval Fever

A young girl growing up in an Afro-descendant community of Ecuador in the 1990s confronts familial secrets...
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Author: Yuliana Ortiz Ruano
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Carnaval Fever by Ruano, Yuliana Ortiz

Carnaval Fever

$40.21
Carnaval Fever by Ruano, Yuliana Ortiz

Carnaval Fever

$40.21
Author: Yuliana Ortiz Ruano
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A young girl growing up in an Afro-descendant community of Ecuador in the 1990s confronts familial secrets and the ever-present specter of male violence, set against the vibrant background of Carnaval

"In this wondrous novel, both life's potential for beauty and harshness sing together. Ortiz has written a story you will not forget." --Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain Gang All-Stars

Ainhoa lives a protected life within the walls of her grandmother's house in the neighborhood of Esmeraldas in Ecuador. Surrounded by a gaggle of aunts who love and teach her, Ainhoa narrates moments that evoke the powerful presence of music and dance in her daily life while also confronting familial violence over the course of Carnaval season. Seen through Ainhoa's innocent eyes, the difficult themes that have defined the South American country's recent history, including economic hardship, migration, and upheaval, are but one side of an enormous cultural richness steeped in the joy, music, and vibrancy of this singular community of women.

Following the contours of Carnaval, and sublimely translated by Madeleine Arenivar, Yuliana Ortiz Ruano's sensorial and viscerally alive novel brims with poetry and exuberance, as well as the pain of an existence lived in the forgotten corners of the world. Carnaval Fever is the introduction of an important new voice in Latin American letters, available in English for the first time.

Author: Yuliana Ortiz Ruano
Publisher: Soft Skull
Published: 11/11/2025
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781593768096


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Foreword 10/17/2025

About the Author
YULIANA ORTIZ RUANO (Esmeraldas, Ecuador, 1992) is an Afro music DJ. A novelist and a poet, she is the author of the collections Sovoz, Canciones desde el fin del mundo, and Cuaderno del imposible retorno a Pangea. Carnaval Fever won the Joaquín Gallegos Lara National Fiction Prize, the Primo Romanzo Latinoamericano Award, and the PEN Presents English PEN Award.
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