Overview
La nueva novela del joven y multipremiado escritor Brais Lamela. Un libro hermoso, imaginativo y audaz por uno de los nuevos talentos más resplandecientes del país.
Dos jóvenes se adentran en una tierra extraña en busca de un antiguo asentamiento colonial. Huyen de los incendios, se refugian en hoteles perdidos en la selva, y entre ellos va tramándose una intimidad frágil, atravesada por la sospecha de que cada palabra pueda significar lo contrario de lo que parece.
A partir de ese viaje, Brais Lamela despliega un mundo narrativo expansivo y singular, en el que distintas voces, tiempos y relatos se entrelazan: las ansiosas cartas de un viajero al otro lado del Atlántico, una noche de insomnio sostenida por la lectura en voz alta y, como un coro subterráneo, un grupo de estatuas expoliadas que exigen regresar.
La lengua extranjera es una novela ambiciosa y envolvente sobre el arte, la memoria y la alargada sombra de la violencia colonial; sobre el lenguaje como fuerza capaz de desestabilizar y transformar el mundo.
Con una prosa de gran fuerza poética, La lengua extranjera cruza la crónica íntima, la novela histórica y la imaginación política para construir una obra polifónica y valiente, que confirma a Brais Lamela como una de las voces jóvenes más singulares de nuestro panorama literario.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
The new novel by young, multi-award-winning writer Brais Lamela: a beautiful, imaginative, and daring work by one of the country’s most brilliant emerging talents.
Two young people venture into a strange land in search of an old colonial settlement. Fleeing the fires, they take refuge in hotels deep in the jungle, while a fragile intimacy begins to form between them—shadowed by the suspicion that every word might mean the opposite of what it seems.
From this journey, Brais Lamela unfolds an expansive and singular narrative world in which different voices, eras, and stories intertwine: the anxious letters of a traveler across the Atlantic, a sleepless night sustained by reading aloud, and, like an underground chorus, a group of plundered statues demanding to return home.
What Remains is an ambitious, immersive novel about art, memory, and the long shadow of colonial violence—and about language as a force capable of destabilizing and transforming the world.
Written in prose of remarkable poetic power, What Remains blends intimate chronicle, historical fiction, and political imagination to create a bold, polyphonic work that confirms Brais Lamela as one of the most distinctive young voices in contemporary literature.
Dos jóvenes se adentran en una tierra extraña en busca de un antiguo asentamiento colonial. Huyen de los incendios, se refugian en hoteles perdidos en la selva, y entre ellos va tramándose una intimidad frágil, atravesada por la sospecha de que cada palabra pueda significar lo contrario de lo que parece.
A partir de ese viaje, Brais Lamela despliega un mundo narrativo expansivo y singular, en el que distintas voces, tiempos y relatos se entrelazan: las ansiosas cartas de un viajero al otro lado del Atlántico, una noche de insomnio sostenida por la lectura en voz alta y, como un coro subterráneo, un grupo de estatuas expoliadas que exigen regresar.
La lengua extranjera es una novela ambiciosa y envolvente sobre el arte, la memoria y la alargada sombra de la violencia colonial; sobre el lenguaje como fuerza capaz de desestabilizar y transformar el mundo.
Con una prosa de gran fuerza poética, La lengua extranjera cruza la crónica íntima, la novela histórica y la imaginación política para construir una obra polifónica y valiente, que confirma a Brais Lamela como una de las voces jóvenes más singulares de nuestro panorama literario.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
The new novel by young, multi-award-winning writer Brais Lamela: a beautiful, imaginative, and daring work by one of the country’s most brilliant emerging talents.
Two young people venture into a strange land in search of an old colonial settlement. Fleeing the fires, they take refuge in hotels deep in the jungle, while a fragile intimacy begins to form between them—shadowed by the suspicion that every word might mean the opposite of what it seems.
From this journey, Brais Lamela unfolds an expansive and singular narrative world in which different voices, eras, and stories intertwine: the anxious letters of a traveler across the Atlantic, a sleepless night sustained by reading aloud, and, like an underground chorus, a group of plundered statues demanding to return home.
What Remains is an ambitious, immersive novel about art, memory, and the long shadow of colonial violence—and about language as a force capable of destabilizing and transforming the world.
Written in prose of remarkable poetic power, What Remains blends intimate chronicle, historical fiction, and political imagination to create a bold, polyphonic work that confirms Brais Lamela as one of the most distinctive young voices in contemporary literature.
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