The seven stories of You Glow in the Dark&nbsp;unfold in a Latin America wrecked and poisoned by human greed, and yet Colanzi's writing--at once sleek and dense, otherworldly and intensely specific--casts an eerily bright spell over the wreckage. Some stories seem to be set in a near future; all are superbly executed and yet hard to pin down; they often leave the reader wondering: Was that realistic or fantastic? Colanzi draws power from zombie movies just as much as from classic horror writers, and this daring is matched by her energizing simultaneous use of multiplicity and fragmentation--the book's stylistic trademarks. Freely mixing worlds, she uses the Bolivian altiplano as the backdrop for an urban dystopia and blends Aymara with Spanish. Colanzi never gets bogged down; she can be brutal and direct or light-handed and subtle. Her materials are dark, but always there's the lift of her vivid sense of humor.&nbsp;You Glow in the Dark seizes the reader's attention (from the title on) and holds it: this is a book that announces the arrival of a major new talent.

You Glow in the Dark

Literature & Fiction

COLANZI, LILIANA

United States

New Directions

Here be Monsters! They lurk and crawl and fly in the shadows of our mind. We know them from ancient legends and tales whispered by the campfire. They hide under the dark bridge, in the deep woods or out on the great plains, in the drizzling rain forest or out on the foggy moor, beneath the surface, under your bed. They don't sparkle or have any interest in us except to tear us apart. They are the monsters! Forgotten, unknown, misunderstood, overused, watered down. We adore them still. We want to give them a renaissance, to reestablish their dark reputation, to give them a comeback, let the world know of their real terror. American Monsters pt 1 is the fifth volume in a coffee table book series from Fox Spirit Books with dark fiction and art about monsters from around the world, and the first of two volumes covering the American continent. "A wonderfully eclectic and compelling monster anthology that offers fresh, and often subversive perspectives on the weird, the dark, and the scary. The stories in American Monsters bristle with fangs and claws, introducing us to creatures that are formidable and terrifying, often ancient, and often dangerously capricious. Prowling the outskirts of society and the fringes of reality, many of these monsters live among the poor and the oppressed, and end up using their otherworldly powers to frighten, devour, or punish the oppressors. This is visceral, gripping, and satisfying horror with monsters that will get under your skin to haunt your dreams and your nightmares." Maria Haskins, writer and translator with speculative fiction in numerous anthologies and magazines. Blogs about science fiction and fantasy for Barnes and Noble.

American Monsters Part One (Fs Books of Monsters)

Santos, Santiago

Genre Fiction

Fox Spirit Books

A young woman suffers a mental breakdown because of her repressive and religious mother. A group of children is fascinated by the sudden death of a friend. A drug trafficking couple visits Paris at the same time as a psychopathic cannibal. A mysterious wave travels through a university campus, driving students to suicide. A photographer witnesses a family’s surface composure shatter during a portrait session. A worker on Mars sees ghostly animals in the desert and longs for an impossible return to Earth. A plastic surgeon botches an operation and hides on a sugar cane plantation where indigenous slavery is practiced. Horror and the fantastic mark the unstable realism of Our Dead World, in which altered states of consciousness, marginalized peoples, animal bodies, and tensions between tradition and modernity are recurring themes. Liliana Colanzi’s stories explore those moments when the civilized voice of the ego gives way to the buzzing of the subconscious, and repressed indigenous history destabilizes the colonial legacy still present in contemporary Latin America.
 Colanzi is considered by critics to be one of the most promising voices of the new Latin American narrative, and this book is an ambitious formal and thematic leap.

Our Dead World (Bolivian Literature)

Dalkey Archive Press

Los cuentos de Liliana Colanzi exploran diversas formas de narrar el tiempo, como el viaje geológico en una cueva, la búsqueda de las raíces históricas de la explotación del caucho en las ruinas de un pueblo amazónico, o la temporalidad dislocada de una colonia religiosa en la que sus personajes ansían deshacerse de las prohibiciones que los encallan en el pasado. En este libro la radiación es un agente invisible que afecta a los jóvenes que viven cerca de una central nuclear andina y a los recolectores de chatarra de una ciudad brasileña. Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro, libro galardonado con el Premio Ribera del Duero, crea espacios abigarrados y enigmáticos con una escritura inquietante y sensorial. El jurado, del que formaron parte los escritores Marta Sanz, Cristian Crusat y presidido por Rosa Montero, resaltó una obra de gran originalidad y potencia expresiva, que construye mundos extraños aunando las claves de ciencia ficción y realismo para llevar a cabo una crítica que nos sitúa ante el desconsuelo e inquietud de la vida

Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro (Spanish Edition)

Short Stories & Anthologies

Editorial Páginas de Espuma

NUESTRO MUNDO MUERTO [Spanish]

Eterna Cadencia

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