Entre fragmentos de recuerdos y de olvidos que parecen dominados por el azar, Ana intenta recobrar la memoria perdida por un accidente menor. Aun a escala personal, el pasado configura para ella un campo de batalla y la Historia del país se manifiesta en los hitos, símbolos y tabúes que instauraron su propio linaje. El conflicto doméstico aparece así enmarcado por otro más crudo: la pelea por la lengua y el territorio propios. En esta novela deslumbrante y sutil, donde lo íntimo se proyecta implacable sobre lo político, Carla Maliandi varía sobre el motivo kafkiano de la metamorfosis, que aquí existe como punto de llegada. Es muy posible, para cualquiera, amanecer transformado en un monstruoso insecto.
Author
Carla Maliandi was born in Venezuela in 1976 and is the daughter of Argentinian philosophers Ricardo Maliandi and Graciela Fernández who were forced to escape Argentina’s military regime. She is an award-winning playwright, theatre director, university lecturer and writer. She has written and directed five theatre plays, which were all staged in Buenos Aires as well as in different international theatre festivals. She has also co-written several other plays. She is part of the writers’ collective Rioplatensas as part of which she directs a literary journal and a TV programme. Her plays Espejo en el desierto (Mirror in the desert) and Regen (Rain) appeared in an anthology published by the National Theatre Institute of Argentina, and her short story Indio (Indian) was included in a short story collection entitled Zona de cuentos (Short Story Zone). The German Room is her first novel and was chosen by several critics as one of the best books to come out of Argentina in 2017. It will be published in France (Métailié) and Germany (Bernberg Verlag). She lives in Buenos Aires. From https://charcopress.com/authors
