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«Se dice que un libro te cambia cuando es bueno y, prepárense, porque el acto rutinario de tirar la basura ya nunca será igual después de leer el de Sylvia Aguilar. --Berna González Harbour, El País En la frontera entre Ciudad Juárez y El Paso habitan tres mujeres cuyas vidas tienen aparentemente poco en común, más que el basurero municipal. Alicia fue abandonada de pequeña en ese vertedero y ha tenido que ganarse la vida entre los desechos ajenos. Reyna dirige con orgullo un prostíbulo que da alegría a los hombres del rumbo y refugio a las mujeres que lo habitan. Griselda, al otro lado de la frontera, es una médica exitosa que investiga el basurero municipal, al tiempo que sobrepasa la enfermedad de la mujer que la crio. La sutil pero puntual escritura de Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny nos deja entrever la violencia, el abandono y la marginalidad que supone vivir en la periferia tal y como si se fuera un montón de basura. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "They say a book changes you when it's good, and get ready-- because the routine act of taking out the trash will never be the same after reading Sylvia Aguilar's." --Berna González Harbour, El País
Along the border between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso live three women whose lives seem to have little in common--except for the municipal dump. Alicia was abandoned there as a child and has had to make a living among other people's refuse. Reyna proudly runs a brothel that brings joy to the men of the area and refuge to the women who inhabit it. Griselda, on the other side of the border, is a successful physician who studies the landfill while also caring for the woman who raised her as she declines in illness. Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny's subtle yet precise prose allows us to glimpse the violence, abandonment, and marginalization inherent in living at the periphery--as though one were nothing more than a heap of discarded trash.
Author: Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny
Publisher: Prh Grupo Editorial
Published: 07/07/2026
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9798890987372
Language: Spanish
About the Author
Sylvia Aguilar ZÃ(c)leny (Sonora, 1973) es Maestra en Escritura Creativa por la Universidad de Texas, donde actualmente es profesora asociada. Ha sido becaria del Fondo Estatal y del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. Autora de Una no habla de esto (Feta, 2006), Nenitas (Premio Regional de Cuento Ciudad de La Paz, Nitro/Press, 2013), Señorita Ansiedad y otras manÃ-as (Kodama Cartonera, 2014), Todo Eso Es Yo (Premio Nacional de Novela Tamaulipas, ITCA, 2015) y Basura (Nitro/Press, 2018), entre otros. En Estados Unidos ha publicado The Everything I Have Lost (Cinco Puntos Press, 2020). Parte de su obra ha sido incluida en antologÃ-as de MÃ(c)xico, Corea, Australia, Estados Unidos y Perð. Coordina Casa Octavia, una residencia para escritoras en El Paso, Texas. Ademàs, escribe el blog mensual Seis grados de separaciÃ3n en la revista Este PaÃ-s. Literatura Random House publica su ðltima novela, El libro de Aisha, que forma parte de Mapa de las lenguas 2022.
Along the border between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso live three women whose lives seem to have little in common--except for the municipal dump. Alicia was abandoned there as a child and has had to make a living among other people's refuse. Reyna proudly runs a brothel that brings joy to the men of the area and refuge to the women who inhabit it. Griselda, on the other side of the border, is a successful physician who studies the landfill while also caring for the woman who raised her as she declines in illness. Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny's subtle yet precise prose allows us to glimpse the violence, abandonment, and marginalization inherent in living at the periphery--as though one were nothing more than a heap of discarded trash.
Author: Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny
Publisher: Prh Grupo Editorial
Published: 07/07/2026
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9798890987372
Language: Spanish
About the Author
Sylvia Aguilar ZÃ(c)leny (Sonora, 1973) es Maestra en Escritura Creativa por la Universidad de Texas, donde actualmente es profesora asociada. Ha sido becaria del Fondo Estatal y del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. Autora de Una no habla de esto (Feta, 2006), Nenitas (Premio Regional de Cuento Ciudad de La Paz, Nitro/Press, 2013), Señorita Ansiedad y otras manÃ-as (Kodama Cartonera, 2014), Todo Eso Es Yo (Premio Nacional de Novela Tamaulipas, ITCA, 2015) y Basura (Nitro/Press, 2018), entre otros. En Estados Unidos ha publicado The Everything I Have Lost (Cinco Puntos Press, 2020). Parte de su obra ha sido incluida en antologÃ-as de MÃ(c)xico, Corea, Australia, Estados Unidos y Perð. Coordina Casa Octavia, una residencia para escritoras en El Paso, Texas. Ademàs, escribe el blog mensual Seis grados de separaciÃ3n en la revista Este PaÃ-s. Literatura Random House publica su ðltima novela, El libro de Aisha, que forma parte de Mapa de las lenguas 2022.
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