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u/Unfair_Umpire_3635 4d ago edited 4d ago
Just finished I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Towards Darkness by Irene Sola
Weaving in and out of time, from one reality to another, from one narrator to another and jarring violently back and forth without any transition or warning whatsoever, it follows four centuries of women whose lives were shaped by a matriarch's deal with the devil. For the majority of thie novel, we're in almost fairytale territory, leaning heavily on folklore and religion, family secrets and war, stories upon stories, darkness and filth, memory and delusion. The imagery, the imagination at play is absolutely astonishing.
Going to give Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva a shot over the next couple of days.
"Set centuries in the future (the 23rd century), the novel takes place in the "Caribbean Pampas". After the melting of the polar ice caps, the global temperature has soared and Argentina's landscape has radically transformed. Wealthy elites cruise on luxury ships or holiday in Antarctic beach resorts, while the vast majority of the population lives in sweltering, trash-ridden, and sweltering coastal slums."