Marie Claire | Books: three literary debuts that will surprise you (and a lot)

It rarely happens that so many come together literary debuts in the list of editorial news.

Although they are not all releases of this month, here we choose these three that, the truth, caught our attention (and conquered) alike, for his self-confidence yes, but also for his power and honesty. Come and read:

Donkey belly. Two pre-adolescent friends in a popular neighborhood in Tenerife

Andrea Abreu, born and raised in the Canary Islands, decided to portray in his first novel the lives of from friends who live, at the beginning of the new millennium, in a popular neighborhood in Tenerife, invisible and anonymous.

Full of vintage winks (Pokémon, Passion of Gavilanes, the Messenger …) the story will go through several of the totems of the so-called “coming of age”: sexual awakening, identity, fears, insecurities and, in this case also, inequality.

The book, which was a true bestseller in Spain, is built from the oral and native language of the island. Is sincere, Without mincing words, and brings to the fore the voices and bodies of the characters with a bold beauty, in which the everyday is iconic of the age, of a time and of a place.

The data: during April, Donkey’s belly (which also marks the arrival of Barrett, independent publisher from Seville) will be the reading of the month in the book club Carbon, that we already have highly recommended around here.

Bedroom City. When the territory sticks to the body (and the soul)

A Dodge 1500 welcomes us to the fascinating world created (rather, recreated) byr Damien Snitifker, novel writer, cook, and student of History and Photography.

With addictive storytelling, Bedroom City it seems at times a movie script, a kind of 25 Watts bonaerense where they send the music, the beers in the street, the neighborhood festipunks and a radio program “del palo”.

As in Donkey’s Belly, the vintage signs They are once again very present here, reminding us how were the years of youth without the interference -and conquest- digital.

A separate paragraph is taken by the delicate editing and presentation of the book, “sprinkled” by Dodge 1500 original manual pages and a careful aesthetic desire. It also includes a QR code which leads us to a playlist with the themes that run through the work, Fish, a Sui Generis and of David Bowie a Omar Shané.

Cannon fodder. An endless initiation story

Known in networks as @astro_viking, Victoria Herrera was born in Spain, but years ago fell in love with Buenos Aires, where he came to study theater.

Cannon Fodder is his first novel and although it starts with the pain of death (no less than Sofía’s father, its protagonist) the story is far from stopping there.

Like Sofia herself, the narrative transmutes as his world widens, either through sex, through grief, of the encounters with others or of the skins and the aromas that we would suppose familiar and are just being discovered.

With a frank and torn voice, Victoria shows that her landing in literature is far from being an ephemeral whim of the stars.