Overview
Una novela extraordinaria sobre la amistad y la culpa en la violenta frontera entre México y Estados Unidos.
En un barrio de Mexicali, una de las últimas ciudades de México antes de la frontera con Estados Unidos, dos niñas inseparables, Elisa y Aimé, viven un verano que las marcará para siempre. La noche antes de que Elisa abandone la ciudad para ir a estudiar fuera gracias a una beca de atletismo, la responsabilidad de ambas en un suceso trágico fracturará no solo su amistad, sino a todo el barrio, una comunidad donde la violencia se mezcla con la superstición y el miedo.
Dos décadas después, las dos amigas se reencuentran convertidas en personas muy distintas a las niñas que fueron. Promesa frustrada del atletismo, Elisa regresa a su ciudad natal sola y avergonzada por unas expectativas que no ha logrado cumplir. Antaño tímida y a la sombra de su amiga, Aimé es una mujer influyente que ha sabido reconducir su destino con mano férrea. Entre ambas se abre una grieta marcada por la culpa y la distinta forma de afrontar el secreto compartido.
Donde termina el verano es una novela sobre el fin de la inocencia y la violencia estructural que atraviesa a los niños y las mujeres en un lugar de paso marcado por la extrema pobreza. Narrada con una prosa hipnótica y precisa, Elma Correa compone una gran elegía fronteriza en la que el relato oficial —los feminicidios, los niños robados y las madres que callan— queda iluminado por los principios de honestidad y lealtad de una comunidad al margen de la ley.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
An extraordinary novel about friendship and guilt on the violent border between Mexico and the United States.
In a neighborhood of Mexicali, one of the last Mexican cities before the U.S. border, two inseparable girls, Elisa and Aimé, live a summer that will mark them forever. On the night before Elisa leaves the city to study abroad thanks to an athletic scholarship, their shared responsibility in a tragic event will fracture not only their friendship, but the entire neighborhood—a community where violence mixes with superstition and fear.
Two decades later, the two friends meet again, transformed into very different women from the girls they once were. Once a promising athlete, Elisa returns to her hometown alone and ashamed of expectations she has failed to meet. Formerly shy and living in her friend’s shadow, Aimé has become an influential woman who has steered her destiny with a firm hand. Between them lies a rift marked by guilt and the different ways of confronting their shared secret.
Donde termina el verano is a novel about the end of innocence and the structural violence that affects children and women in a place of passage scarred by extreme poverty. Written with hypnotic and precise prose, Elma Correa composes a great border elegy in which the official narrative—femicides, stolen children, and mothers who remain silent—is illuminated by the principles of honesty and loyalty of a community living outside the law.
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