Liliana's Invincible Summer

Resumen del libro

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE 'Meticulously written and deeply moving . . . A triumph' JACKIE KAY 'Absorbing and poetic' ECONOMIST 'Full of tenderness and beauty' MARIANA ENRIQUEZ From one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, an astonishing work of non-fiction that illuminates an epidemic of femicide in Mexico through the death of one woman. I seek justice, I finally said. I seek justice for my sister . . . Sometimes it takes twenty-nine years to say it out loud, to say it out loud on a phone call with a lawyer at the General Attorney's office: I seek justice. On the dawn of 16 July 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, Cristina Rivera Garza's sister, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend and subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of femicide. She was a twenty-year-old architecture student who had been trying for years to end her relationship with a high school boyfriend who insisted on not letting her go. A few weeks before the tragedy, Liliana made a definitive decision: at the height of her winter she had discovered that, as Albert Camus had said, there was an invincible summer in her. She would leave him behind. She would start a new life. She would do a master's degree and a doctorate; she would travel to London. But his decision was that she would not have a life without him. Returning to Mexico after decades of living in the United States, Cristina Rivera Garza collects and curates evidence - handwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, voice recordings and architectural blueprints - to defy a pattern of increasingly normalised, gendered violence and understand the life lost. What she finds is Liliana: her sister's voice crossing time and, like that of so many disappeared and outraged women in Mexico, demanding justice.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Cristina Rivera Garzax{0026}lt;/B es autora, traductora y crítica. Sus libros más recientes son x{0026}lt;I El invencible verano de Lilianax{0026}lt;/I (Random House, 2021; Premio Xavier Villaurrutia 2021, publicado en inglés en 2023 y finalista del National Book Award en la categoría de no ficción), x{0026}lt;I New and Selected Stories x{0026}lt;/I (2022), x{0026}lt;I Dolerse. Textos desde un país heridox{0026}lt;/I (2011, traducido al inglés en 2020 por Sarah Booker y finalista del NBCC Award) y su poesía completa, con el título x{0026}lt;I Me llamo cuerpo que no estáx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2024). En 2020 obtuvo la beca MacArthur. Actualmente es profesora distinguida M. D. Anderson en la Universidad de Houston. Además de los mencionados, Rivera Garza ha recibido los premios Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (en dos ocasiones), Anna Seghers, Shirley Jackson y Roger Callois.x{0026}lt;/P