Descripción
«Quizá solo estando tiempo en los caminos y el río, sin decir demasiadas palabras, era posible concebir la selva como el estómago que era. Un organismo que respira, separa; lo vivo lo pone muerto, y lo muerto, vivo. En la selva se levanta un polvo dorado y electrizado. Una vez ahí, no era posible seguir siendo como uno era en su vida normal. Uno era digerido. Marcia Corona defiende a la empresa constructora que busca instalar un sistema de represas en el Usumacinta, el último río vivo de México. Litiga con astucia para conseguir la promoción que le fue prometida a cambio de la victoria, pero su empleador la traiciona y, en lugar del ascenso, la despide. Con la venganza como motor, Marcia viaja al sitio de la obra y se enfrenta con un río caudaloso y violento, de raudales indescifrables y la espesura de una selva fiera, y ahí, donde gobierna el Usumacinta, Marcia buscará reorientar las consecuencias de sus acciones. Una novela coral, situada en la cuenca del cañón del Usumacinta, en la que lo más-que-humano le arrebata la voz a lo humano, nos trae de vuelta la potente voz narrativa de Luisa Reyes Retana, una de las escritoras mexicanas contemporáneas más destacadas de su generación. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Perhaps only by spending time along the paths and the river, without saying too many words, was it possible to conceive the jungle as the important core that it was, a stomach. An organism that breathes, separates; turns the living into dead, and the dead into living. In the jungle rises a golden and electrified dust. Once there, it was no longer possible to remain who you were in your normal life. You had been digested."
Marcia Corona defends the construction company seeking to install a system of dams on the Usumacinta, Mexico's last living river. She litigates shrewdly to earn the promotion she was promised in exchange for victory--but her employer betrays her and, instead of advancing her, fires her. Driven by revenge, Marcia travels to the construction site, where she confronts a mighty, violent river of unfathomable currents and the density of a wild jungle. There, in the domain of the Usumacinta, Marcia will seek to redirect the consequences of her previous actions.
A choral novel set in the canyon basin of the Usumacinta River, where the more-than-human strips the human of its voice, this work marks the return of Luisa Reyes Retana's powerful narrative voice, one of the most acclaimed contemporary Mexican writers of her generation.
Author: Luisa Reyes Retana
Publisher: Literatura Random House
Published: 04/07/2026
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.99h x 5.21w x 0.64d
ISBN13: 9786073867542
ISBN10: 6073867549
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Thrillers | Legal
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino | Women
- Fiction | World Literature | Mexico
Marcia Corona defends the construction company seeking to install a system of dams on the Usumacinta, Mexico's last living river. She litigates shrewdly to earn the promotion she was promised in exchange for victory--but her employer betrays her and, instead of advancing her, fires her. Driven by revenge, Marcia travels to the construction site, where she confronts a mighty, violent river of unfathomable currents and the density of a wild jungle. There, in the domain of the Usumacinta, Marcia will seek to redirect the consequences of her previous actions.
A choral novel set in the canyon basin of the Usumacinta River, where the more-than-human strips the human of its voice, this work marks the return of Luisa Reyes Retana's powerful narrative voice, one of the most acclaimed contemporary Mexican writers of her generation.
Author: Luisa Reyes Retana
Publisher: Literatura Random House
Published: 04/07/2026
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.99h x 5.21w x 0.64d
ISBN13: 9786073867542
ISBN10: 6073867549
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Thrillers | Legal
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino | Women
- Fiction | World Literature | Mexico
About the Author
Luisa Reyes Retana (Ciudad de México, 1979) estudió Derecho en el ITAM y una maestría en Derecho Comparado en la Universidad de Berkeley, en California. Trabajó como secretaria de estudio y cuenta en la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación y en 2011 fundó Sicomoro Ediciones, una casa editorial independiente avocada a la publicación de libros de arte y cocina. Ha escrito textos para Arte al Día, La Tempestad y otras publicaciones. Arde Josefina es su primera novela.