Overview
Ā«El 16 de julio de 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, mi hermana, fue vĆctima de unĀ feminicidio. Era una muchacha de 20 aƱos, estudiante de arquitectura. TenĆa aƱos tratando de terminar su relaciĆ³n con un novio de la preparatoria que insistĆa en no dejarla ir. Unas cuantas semanas antes de la tragedia, Liliana por fin tomĆ³ una decisiĆ³n definitiva: en lo mĆ”s crudo del invierno habĆa descubierto que en ella, como bien lo habĆa dicho Albert Camus, habĆa un invencible verano. Lo dejarĆa atrĆ”s. EmpezarĆa una nueva vida. HarĆa una maestrĆa y despuĆ©s un doctorado; viajarĆa a Londres.
Ā»La decisiĆ³n de Ć©l fue que ella no tendrĆa una vida sin Ć©l. Hace apenas un aƱo decidĆ abrir las cajas donde depositamos las pertenencias de mi hermana. Su voz atravesĆ³ el tiempo y, como la de tantas mujeres desaparecidas y ultrajadas en MĆ©xico, demandĆ³ justicia.
Ā»El invencible verano de Liliana es una excavaciĆ³n en la vida de unaĀ mujer brillante y audazĀ que careciĆ³, como nosotros mismos, como todos los demĆ”s, del lenguaje necesario para identificar, denunciar y combatir la violencia sexista y el terrorismo de pareja que caracteriza a tantas relaciones patriarcalesĀ».
āĀ”Enorme!Ā Ā”OjalĆ” millones lo lean!ā ā Francisco Goldman, autor de Monkey Boy, finalista del Premio Pulitzer de FicciĆ³n 2022
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murder, from āone of Mexicoās greatest living writersā (Jonathan Lethem).
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Can you enjoy yourself while you are in pain? The question, which is not new, arises over and over again during that eternity that is mourning.
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In the early hours of July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full of promise and hope, cut tragically short, Lilianaās story instead became subsumed into Mexicoās dark and relentless history of domestic violence. With Lilianaās case file abandoned by a corrupt criminal justice system, her family, including her older sister Cristina, was forced to process their grief and guilt in private, without any hope for justice.
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In luminous, poetic prose, Rivera Garza tells a singular yet universally resonant story: that of a spirited, wondrously hopeful young woman who tried to survive in a world of increasingly normalized gendered violence. It traces the story of her childhood, her early romance with a handsomeābut possessive and short-temperedāman, through the exhilarating weeks leading up to that fateful July morning, a summer when Liliana loved, thought, and traveled more widely and freely than she ever had before.
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Using her remarkable talents as a scholar, novelist, and poet, Cristina Rivera Garza returns to Mexico after decades of living in the United States to collect and curate evidence āhandwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, architectural blueprintsā in order to render and understand a life beyond the crime itself. Tracing the full arc of their childhood and adolescence in central Mexico, through the painful and confusing years after Lilianaās death, Rivera Garza confronts the trauma of losing her sister, and examines from multiple angles how this tragedy continues to shape who she isāand what she fights forātoday.
This book title, El invencible verano de Liliana / Liliana's Invincible Summer, ISBN: 9781644734346, by Cristina Rivera Garza, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (February 28, 2023) 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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