La palabra más monstruosa (Novela) / The Most Monstrous Word (A Novel) (Spanish Edition)

Entretejida en una narrativa potente, visceral y desgarradora, La palabra más monstruosa —ópera prima de Marlene Navarro Guevara— es una novela sobre abuso y violencia intrafamiliar, pero también la escalofriante historia detrás del inquebrantable lazo que une a dos hermanos.

En una casa enorme y asfixiante, Héctor, un chico que apenas transita la pubertad, vive bajo la sombra de un monstruo: la madre abusiva e inestable que castiga con desdén a él y su hermano Nicolás, efectuando una violencia encubierta de autoridad. Apenas un espectro, el papá se ha vuelto irrelevante; por lo que Héctor dedica gran parte del día a proteger a su hermano de esa aplastante figura materna. Cuando conoce a Viri y Manu —dos chicos víctimas, como él, de un entorno familiar hostil—, Héctor encuentra un remanso para sus pesadillas. Con sus nuevos amigos se refugia en un edificio abandonado adonde escapan en cada oportunidad y juegan como los niños que no pudieron ser.

Pero el mal encuentra cualquier rendija para infiltrarse y para ellos no hay escondite posible…

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Woven into a powerful, visceral, and heartbreaking narrative, The Most Monstrous Word—Marlene Navarro Guevara’s debut novel—is a story about abuse and domestic violence, but also the chilling bond that unites two brothers.

In a huge, suffocating house, Héctor, a boy barely entering puberty, lives under the shadow of a monster: his abusive and unstable mother, who punishes him and his brother Nicolás with cold authority. Their father is barely a ghost, irrelevant in their lives, so Héctor spends most of his days protecting his brother from that crushing maternal figure. When he meets Viri and Manu—two kids also trapped in hostile homes—Héctor finds a refuge for his nightmares. With his new friends, he escapes to an abandoned building where they play like the children they never got to be.

But evil finds any crack to slip through—and for them, there’s no place to hide…

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