Overview
«Una novela que retrata la vulnerabilidad en torno a las pérdidas, ausencias y la resiliencia frente a la desgracia que atraviesa el cuerpo. Una obra con un estilo depurado y precisión para construir a sus personajes y la intriga que los ata.» -Fernanda Melchor, Julián Herbert y Alaíde Ventura Jurado del premio Mauricio Achar / Random House 2023
Amor Prójimo se manifiesta como el responso por una muerta que no está muerta, pronunciado por una viva que ardió por dentro hasta convertirse en tronco. A Teresa y su hermana sus propios padres las aventaron a un orfanato. A la madre de ellas la casaron a los trece años con un hombre mayor, la boda fue a las diez de la noche y no hubo testigos. El padre es el penúltimo sobreviviente de la última rama de una estirpe que el tiempo aniquiló. La tenebrosa tía Amelia, hermana del papá, a quien las madres Pasionistas le negaron su sueño de convertirse en esposa de Dios, se hizo monja clandestina. Teresa y su hermana comparten al mismo hombre, al que quisieran amar y que las ame. Pero éstos no son simples datos anecdóticos, constituyen los asuntos de redención que la narradora de esta novela ha venido a tratar con su hermana en coma. -Mario González Suárez
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
“A novel that portrays the vulnerability of loss, absence, and resilience, in the face of the body’s state of disgrace. A work with a refined style and precision in character building and the creation of an intrigue that binds them.” —Fernanda Melchor, Julián Herbert, and Alaíde Ventura, jury of the Mauricio Achar/Random House Prize 2023
Love for One’s Neighbor manifests itself like a eulogy for a dead woman that didn’t die, uttered for a life that burned from within until becoming a log. Teresa and her sister were thrown into an orphanage by their own parents. Their mother was married away to an older man at the age of thirteen; the wedding was at ten at night, no witnesses. Their father is second to last in a long family line that time annihilated. Sinister Aunt Amelia, their father’s sister, whom Passionist mothers denied her the dream of becoming God’s wife, became a clandestine nun. Teresa and her sister share the same man, whom they wish to love and be loved by. But these are not just simple facts; they constitute affairs of redemption that the author of this novel has come to discuss with her comatose sister. —Mario González Suárez
Amor Prójimo se manifiesta como el responso por una muerta que no está muerta, pronunciado por una viva que ardió por dentro hasta convertirse en tronco. A Teresa y su hermana sus propios padres las aventaron a un orfanato. A la madre de ellas la casaron a los trece años con un hombre mayor, la boda fue a las diez de la noche y no hubo testigos. El padre es el penúltimo sobreviviente de la última rama de una estirpe que el tiempo aniquiló. La tenebrosa tía Amelia, hermana del papá, a quien las madres Pasionistas le negaron su sueño de convertirse en esposa de Dios, se hizo monja clandestina. Teresa y su hermana comparten al mismo hombre, al que quisieran amar y que las ame. Pero éstos no son simples datos anecdóticos, constituyen los asuntos de redención que la narradora de esta novela ha venido a tratar con su hermana en coma. -Mario González Suárez
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
“A novel that portrays the vulnerability of loss, absence, and resilience, in the face of the body’s state of disgrace. A work with a refined style and precision in character building and the creation of an intrigue that binds them.” —Fernanda Melchor, Julián Herbert, and Alaíde Ventura, jury of the Mauricio Achar/Random House Prize 2023
Love for One’s Neighbor manifests itself like a eulogy for a dead woman that didn’t die, uttered for a life that burned from within until becoming a log. Teresa and her sister were thrown into an orphanage by their own parents. Their mother was married away to an older man at the age of thirteen; the wedding was at ten at night, no witnesses. Their father is second to last in a long family line that time annihilated. Sinister Aunt Amelia, their father’s sister, whom Passionist mothers denied her the dream of becoming God’s wife, became a clandestine nun. Teresa and her sister share the same man, whom they wish to love and be loved by. But these are not just simple facts; they constitute affairs of redemption that the author of this novel has come to discuss with her comatose sister. —Mario González Suárez
This book title, Amor al Prójimo (Premio Mauricio Achar) / Love for One's Neighbor, ISBN: 9786073847155, by Gabriela Enríquez, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (December 3, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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