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Maldeniña
2023 · A novel. Published in Colombia, Spain and Argentina.
A girl. A father who is always busy. A hotel in the middle of nowhere. An aunt who dyes her hair red and is looking for love.
Isa lives in a nameless town, halfway down the highway. Her father is more and more absent, and she learns to watch the adult world from the front desk of a roadside hotel.
A sad ballad about abandonment, loneliness and the fierce survival of a child.
«A magnet on every page. A magnetic novel about the fierce survival of a child.»
«Poetry with all five senses, set in a run-down hotel.»
Spanish-language editions
Spanish
Random House, Colombia
Spanish
Editorial Tránsito, Spain
Spanish
Concreto Editorial, Argentina
Translations
Danish
Aurora Boreal, Denmark
Selected press
- Babelia, El PaísEl libro del día: Maldeniña, un imán en cada página
- Zenda«En Latinoamérica hay una generación de personas con padres ausentes»
- ZendaSe puede espigar desde la aurora hasta el atardecer
- CambioUna novela intensa y emotiva sobre la búsqueda del amor paterno
- ClarínEn el Filba: «La biblioteca de la región está en la tradición oral»
- InfobaeUn hotel como microcosmos: fragmento de Maldeniña