La Morena is a young Mexican journalist travelling all around her country, in quest of the ultimate love and justice defending just causes; and she finds herself involved in dangerous adventures.
Morena en rojo / Brunette in Red
Child abduction and trafficking (for pornography, prostitution and organ trafficking) make her face crime with one single weapon: her ideals. And she has to fight both criminals and police officers, never knowing exactly where the line between them is.
Que raro que me llame Guadalupe / Strange, my name is Guadalupe
Life seen by a sixteen-year-old prostitute. The underworld of prostitution in Mexico City. Slavery of both adult women and girls, drug trafficking, three crimes…, these are the ingredients of this exciting adventure, full of black humour, folly and horror. The main character of this story offers an amoral perspective of life, an apparently playful though extremely harsh approach, making concessions to no-one and revealing the devastated reality of men and, more specifically, of women for whom life is worth nothing.
About the Author
Myriam Laurini was born in Argentina. An activist against the military dictatorship, she had to go into exile and came to Spain in 1977; in 1980 she moved to Mexico, where she now lives. Laurini is an internationally acclaimed writer and journalist, and has been awarded various international novel and short-story prizes. She has published three novels, and her short stories are included in the anthologies of various European and Latin-American countries. She has also written essays on crime in Mexico City, and is the bearer of women’s voice in literature dealing with important social topics.
Argentina will be the Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Bookfair in 2010 and in order to enable publication in as many languages as possible, the Argentine Foreign Ministry has launched a program for the support of translations of 100 titles by Argentinian authors in 2010.
We represent this title in: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Republic of Moldova, Serbia and Slovenia.
18 January 2010
3 March 2010
