Un mulato en la Alpujarra

El camino que recorre Romy, condenada a dos cadenas perpetuas, es el que parece programado para ciertas personas y que pone en cuestión el sueño americano: un camino que va directo desde la pobreza hasta la cárcel. En La sala Marte entramos de lleno en este mundo extraño situado tras los muros de una prisión de mujeres, cargado de detalles y de un idioma y una rutina propios; un mundo aparte pero unido íntimamente al del exterior. La minuciosidad con la que Rachel Kushner trata la violencia latente y explícita de esta red carcelaria, la oscuridad y la comicidad de sus personajes, la...

Selección de relatos del I Premio Herstoria, protagonizados por mujeres LBT+: Luz de selva (Cecilia Agüero): Virreinato del Perú (s. XVII). Carmen intenta adaptarse a la tierra colorada de la provincia de Guayrá. Allí encuentra la luz en el lugar más inesperado. Hija de nadie (Sara Bishop): Atenas (s. IV a. C.). Ariadna aguarda con temor el momento en que se concierte su matrimonio y pierda para siempre su libertad. El libro de la moabita (Clara Carbonell Ortiz): Actual Jordania (s. IX a. C.). Por un hallazgo arqueológico, todo lo que creíamos sobre la historia bíblica de Rut, Noemí ...

Daniel has long been lost in his drug addiction and discouragement. Claude still believes that by working hard you can achieve something. The two live in Brussels and are dedicated to emptying houses of deceased people, most of them without relatives or from homes so poor that nobody wants to take charge of the move. Kasongo was someone in his country, but here he is lame, poor and has lost his lucky charm. Chantal is an exhausted single mother, burdened with responsibilities, fed up with her precarious life and the lack of a future, also for her little girl. Until Daniel finds in a house...

"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio,...