Salsipuedes
Bogotá: Tusquets, Editorial Planeta Colombiana (Colección Andanzas), 2022. First Edition. Paperback. 223p., wrps. New. Item #79188
ISBN: 9786280000817
Between the bars of a residential unit, the voices of children who play at being devils and at being men are intertwined. The world opens up to the protagonist of this book with the sweet words of an ENT doctor who warns him that the explosions will leave him deaf. Tigre Castillo's twin remembers his childhood while he takes his brother, locked in a trunk, to the stadium. A co-owner tries to carry the body of the heaviest man in the world to the funeral home on the fifth floor. Each story in this book is a window that refracts the tenderness of speech and daily life that burns; in Salsipuedes, death is everyone's neighbor. "In Salsipuedes, Harold Muñoz has imagined his world with precision and talent. Here is a writer's craft and a generous gaze. An extraordinary debut." John Gabriel Vasquez.
Price: $39.90