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    Our Dead World
    Our Dead World
    Our Dead World
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    Our Dead World

    By Liliana Colanzi

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    A young woman suffers a mental breakdown because of her repressive and religious mother. A group of children is fascinated by the sudden death of a friend. A drug trafficking couple visits Paris at the same time as a psychopathic cannibal. A mysterious wave travels through a university campus, driving students to suicide. A photographer witnesses a family’s surface composure shatter during a portrait session. A worker on Mars sees ghostly animals in the desert and longs for an impossible return to Earth. A plastic surgeon botches an operation and hides on a sugar cane plantation where indigenous slavery is practiced.

    Horror and the fantastic mark the unstable realism of Our Dead World, in which altered states of consciousness, marginalized peoples, animal bodies, and tensions between tradition and modernity are recurring themes. Liliana Colanzi’s stories explore those moments when the civilized voice of the ego gives way to the buzzing of the subconscious, and repressed indigenous history destabilizes the colonial legacy still present in contemporary Latin America.

    Colanzi is considered by critics to be one of the most promising voices of the new Latin American narrative, and this book is an ambitious formal and thematic leap.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDalkey Archive Press
    Release dateMay 26, 2017
    ISBN9781628972405
    Our Dead World
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    Liliana Colanzi

    Liliana Colanzi (Bolivia, 1981) has published the story collections Permanent Vacation (2010) and ​Our Dead World (2014). In 2015 she won the Aura Estrada Prize​, awarded to writers under 35 years old living in the United States or Mexico. Colanzi is considered by critics to be one of the most promising voices of the new Latin American narrative, and this book is an ambitious formal and thematic leap.

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      This short story collection by Bolivian author Liliana Colanzi shows a range of genres, primarily realistic with an entry of the otherworldly, but one horror and another pure science fiction (set on Mars) thrown in. They all have a similarly dark tone, often violent, and all unsettling with endings that pack a punch. The best, in my opinion, was "Alfredito", about a group of school children learning that their friend had died and attending his funeral. Overall, a little too dark for me, personally.

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