Towards the most intimate and personal chronicle and poetry, Ale Oseguera (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1982) invites us to accompany her on a journey of physical and sentimental travel to the borders of the planet and beyond. me or at least some people who seem like a lot to you. No prisoners and no concessions.
Dugong
But Oseguera
Yegua de Troya, 2026. 280 pages. €15.90
Poet, storyteller, journalist artistis the mexican narrating in this novella? the journey of a compatriot like her in Barcelona, which seems to her a lot and that she appears here as a dugong mother, a marine mammal on the way to extinction, which gives the book its title. Like him, the protagonist must overcome troubled waters (depression) and debate “between my egoism and my… egoism.”
Sufe además the desire to live in one’s country even if he does not return, the duel between the death of his father and the family members of his family, and he has to face the machismo and hidden classicism of the juzgan people to others for their place of progress and prosperity.
From Kuala Lumpur to Bangkok, between dreams and certainties, the protagonist tries to heal the invisible wounds of her sentimental relationship with Arnau, in the midst of a depression that hurts and feels that her body is deformed, she decides to take photographs “because no one can take her beauty away from me”. At the end of the day, he says, “the body is also the passage of the door at the end.”
Desgarradora and furywith great expressive power and an implacable gaze that goes to the heart of reality, lands, people of the same species, we will hope to rethink migration, disruption and struggle, and question the importance of the body, love and friendship.
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