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The author narrates from within the life of a transvestite community in a hostile urban environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated into more than twenty languages, the novel has received awards such as the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2020, the Finestres de Narrativa 2020, and the Grand Prix de l’Héroïne Madame Figaro 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCamila Sosa Villada (Córdoba, Argentina, 1982) studied Social Communication and Theater at the National University of Córdoba. In 2009 she premiered her first show, \u003cem\u003eCarnes tolendas, retrato escénico de un travesti\u003c\/em\u003e. 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The story of my travestism, of my family, of my sadness in childhood, of all that premature sadness that was my family, my dad's alcoholism, my mom's shortcomings. The moves that separated me forever from friends, from the atmosphere of my rooms, from the habit of the courtyards, from the safety of a hiding place. I write to be able to say the images that filled my childhood. Also to tell the struggle of my family against poverty, a fight that devastated us and made us sick with resentments and lovelessness and indifference, everyone against everyone.»\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCamila Sosa Villada (Córdoba, Argentina, 1982) studied Social Communication and Theater at the National University of Córdoba. In 2009 she premiered her first show, \u003cem\u003eCarnes tolendas, retrato escénico de un travesti\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Through a poetic travesti voice that loves, hates, desires, and is desired, the book explores the mysteries of love, the body, and memory with a sensory eroticism that almost no one manages to put into words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"785\" data-start=\"389\"\u003eThe poems blend joy and sorrow in every body that appears: lovers who leave, the mother rented to another family, the fatigue of the father who fights against poverty, friends who have died, the beloved of the lover. Among images of blood, plants, fireflies, and high heels, Sosa Villada builds an intimate mythology where magic coexists with violence, and fragility becomes strength.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1124\" data-start=\"787\"\u003eCelebrated as a sensation in Argentina, \u003cem data-end=\"856\" data-start=\"834\"\u003eLas novias de Sandro\u003c\/em\u003e confirms Camila Sosa Villada as an author capable of bringing the travesti experience, desire, and grief to a poetic language that is both wild and delicate. A book of poems that leaves a mark on any reader who dares to enter its fierce beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCamila Sosa Villada (Córdoba, Argentina, 1982) studied Social Communication and Theater at the National University of Córdoba. In 2009 she premiered her first show, \u003cem\u003eCarnes tolendas, retrato escénico de un travesti\u003c\/em\u003e. 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In this book, the author delves into the folds of memory, where memory—always changing and disorderly—exposes us to emotions we barely manage to control. But can we resist the siege of certain memories? she asks. And in that search, she finds a way to survive: she does so based on the idea of betrayal and the relationship of language—the very language she has perverted and uses in her works—with eroticism and her own origins. In this dazzling text, Camila Sosa embraces the apparent chaos of what is recalled and transforms it into an intimate structure, made of detours, coincidences, and discoveries. Her prose, sharp and poetic, moves on the border between fiction and confession, between what is inherited and what is betrayed. 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