{"product_id":"malacria-narrativa-sexto-piso","title":"Malacría","description":"\u003ch2 data-path-to-node=\"3\"\u003eAn Inquiry into Memory and the Legacies of Pain\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"4\"\u003eHow do the pasts that inhabit us, even those we are unaware of, affect the present? Malacría, the dazzling debut novel by Elisa Díaz Castelo, explores this question through the genealogy of three women connected by an invisible thread of violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"5\"\u003eThe plot kicks off one morning when Perla, after feeding the dogs, leaves the house and does not return. Hours later, her daughter Ele begins a search joined by Jeni, Perla’s partner, and Valeriana, a beloved dog who plays a fundamental role in the story. As they follow the clues left by the missing woman—like pieces of an incomplete puzzle—the family past emerges through fragmentary remains: an old accounting notebook used as a diary, voice messages, and everyday lists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"6\"\u003eThrough these cracks into the inner world of its protagonists, \u003ci data-index-in-node=\"67\" data-path-to-node=\"6\"\u003eMalacría\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds as an intimate fresco of female experience in 20th-century Mexico and the dawn of the 21st. In the style of classical tragedies, the novel poses a sharp question: might it be that what we create to protect ourselves from trauma is precisely what ends up trapping us in it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote data-path-to-node=\"9\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"9,0\"\u003e“Family wounds are inherited, this powerful and beautiful book that Elisa Díaz Castelo gives us tells us. But it also asks whether those wounds, beyond inhabiting the body, can extend to language itself. I believe they can, for I have come out of this book wounded, but also healed; beaten, but also blessed.” — \u003cb data-index-in-node=\"2\" data-path-to-node=\"9,1\"\u003eLuna Miguel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote data-path-to-node=\"10\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"10,0\"\u003e“Elisa Díaz Castelo has written a beautiful and moving novel about wounds, inheritance, loss, and the body, which sometimes loses its tongue but never its language.” — \u003cb data-index-in-node=\"2\" data-path-to-node=\"10,1\"\u003eMónica Ojeda\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Sexto Piso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57001697182040,"sku":"LIB-MA-SE-597","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788410249752.jpg?v=1774877982","url":"https:\/\/uk.plasticbooks.com\/en\/products\/malacria-narrativa-sexto-piso","provider":"Plastic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}