{"product_id":"la-muerte-me-da-death-takes-me-spanish-edition","title":"La muerte me da \/ Death Takes Me (Spanish Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Cristina Rivera Garza\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eEn la lista de los mejores libros del 2025 de:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Esquire, Marie Claire\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«La novela es densa y elíptica, un paisaje onírico con una poderosa resaca […]. [Una] desgarradora y laberíntica obra maestra.» \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e-Katie Kitamura,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e«Cuídate de mí, amor mío \/ cuídate de la silenciosa del desierto». Este verso de Alejandra Pizarnik aparece escrito con esmalte de uñas en la pared de un callejón, junto al \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ecadáver mutilado de un hombre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. La primera en descubrirlo es la profesora \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCristina Rivera Garza\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Tras avisar a la policía, es interrogada por una detective en homicidios que le pide examinar la fotografía de la \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eescena del crimen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Al reconocer de inmediato el verso, la profesora se convierte en informante clave del caso. Pronto aparecen nuevas víctimas junto a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eotros poemas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, lo que apunta a un \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003easesino en serie\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. La detective comienza una lista de sospechosos, mientras que la profesora recibe la primera nota siniestra de alguien que las \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eestá acechando\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublicada por primera vez en 2007, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLa muerte me da\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e es una novela visionaria y emocionante. Escrita por la \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eganadora del premio Pulitzer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e y una de las voces literarias más relevantes en el mundo hispano, Cristina Rivera Garza, esta historia pone en jaque los tópicos tradicionales de la \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003enovela policiaca\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e y nos devuelve, como un espejo, preguntas inquietantes sobre el deseo y la muerte.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew York Times Notable Book of 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLiliana's Invincible Summer,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ea dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Deeply rewarding . . . a dreamscape with a powerful undertow . . . [a] harrowing and labyrinthine masterpiece.”—Katie Kitamura,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e(Editors’ Choice)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Esquire, Marie Claire\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA city is always a cemetery.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a mutilated man in a dark alley and reports it to the police. When shown a crime scene photo, she finds a stark warning written in tiny print with coral nail polish on the brick wall beside the body: “Beware of me, my love \/ beware of the silent woman in the desert.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe professor becomes the first informant on the case, which is led by a detective newly obsessed with poetry and trailed by a long list of failures. But what has the professor really seen? As the bodies of more castrated men are found alongside lines of verse, the detective tries to decipher the meaning of the poems to put a stop to the violence spreading throughout the city.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally written in Spanish, where the word “victim” is always feminine,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eDeath Takes Me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a thrilling masterpiece of literary fiction that flips the traditional crime narrative of gendered violence on its head. As sharp as the cuts on the bodies of the victims, it unfolds with the charged logic of a dream, moving from the police station to the professor’s classroom and through the slippery worlds of Latin American poetry and art in an imaginative exploration of the unstable terrains of desire and sexuality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Literatura Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43738188709949,"sku":null,"price":34.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2220\/7891\/files\/31Zf1kJo0LL._SY445_SX342_FMwebp.webp?v=1790702752","url":"https:\/\/tia-chuchas.myshopify.com\/en-ca\/products\/la-muerte-me-da-death-takes-me-spanish-edition","provider":"Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural \u0026 Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}