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Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun
2024
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3.80
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National Book Award finalist Mónica Ojeda returns with a blazing, psychedelic novel about girlhood, violence, and the loss of innocence.

In the near future, best friends Noa and Nicole flee their home in Guayaquil, Ecuador to attend the Solar Noise Festival, a week-long, retro-futuristic gathering at the foot of an active volcano. While Noa fully embraces the haze of narcotics and hedonism in an effort to obscure her true reason for attending, Nicole senses something darker at play behind the festival’s so-called “celebration of life.” Amid technoshamanic poetry, collective hallucinations, and ritualistic dances, each girl navigates her own path in an effort to escape her past and reclaim her right to a future.

Vivid, terrifying, and celebratory, Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun blends the primal with the supernatural, solidifying Mónica Ojeda as one of the most singular and exciting voices in Latin American and world literature today.

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Mónica Ojeda
Mónica Ojeda
Author · 12 books

Mónica Ojeda (Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1988). Máster en Creación Literaria y en Teoría y Crítica de la Cultura, dio clases de Literatura en la Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil. Actualmente vive en Madrid. Ha publicado las novelas Mandíbula (Candaya, 2018), Nefando (Candaya, 2016) que tuvo una espectacular recepción crítica y La desfiguración Silva (Premio Alba Narrativa 2014). En 2017 publicó el relato Caninos y otro de sus cuentos fue antologado en Emergencias. Doce cuentos iberoamericanos (Candaya, 2013). Con El ciclo de las piedras, su primer libro de poemas, obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Poesía Desembarco 2015. Forma parte de la prestigiosa lista de Bogotá 39-2017, que recoge a los 39 escritores latinoamericanos menores de 40 años con más talento y proyección de la década.

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