Available from June 4, 2026
Two men meet in a chat looking for sex. One wants to get infected with HIV; the other promises to give it to him. What begins as a casual encounter ends up turning into a couple’s relationship.
The novel traces a story in which the everyday leads to a web of lies crossed by desire and the fear of loss. The narrator’s words constitute a late exercise in honesty that tries to understand what happened and to understand himself, while facing universal experiences such as grief or guilt. The book draws “in black ink” the portrait of the lover, “forgetting that there are clouds and clear days,” in a constant dialogue between art, literature, memory, and bad conscience.
With Te hice dios, Marcos Augusto delivers a provocative debut that uncompromisingly addresses erotic drive, the fragility of the body, and intimacy mediated by apps, as well as the trust placed in science, magical thinking, and the fictions on which love relationships sometimes rest.
“A novel that immerses us in a world of radical impulses, between carnal desire and the desire for death, structured by prose in which Marcos Augusto applies the rhythm and aura of his poetry with admirable psychological and atmospheric precision. As if a new Gil de Biedma discovered that Grindr, life, and death are all serious, and that there is a form of elegance that consists of getting dirty.” – Nadal Suau
