Justin Torres

Un debut aclamado por la crítica americana.La vida de la familia Torres es un caos. El padre, puertorriqueño «Paps», y la madre, nacida en Brooklyn «Ma», deciden tener tres hijos pese a su precaria s

"Tre fratelli vivono la loro difficile infanzia nelle strade di Brooklyn, lanciandosi pomodori, costruendo aquiloni con i rifiuti e scappando dalle liti furiose dei genitori. Il papa e portoricano, la madre bianca, il loro un rapporto turbolento che ha fatto e disfatto la famiglia piu volte. La vita nella loro casa e un banco di prova, sospesa tra caos, batticuore e l'euforia di appartenere completamente a qualcun altro. Gli occhi di bambino curioso di scoprire il mondo passano in fretta dal calore familiare alla solitudine nella scoperta del mondo. Justin Torres reinventa il romanzo di formazione con una storia che colpisce con l'intensita di un pugno allo stomaco, ed esplora l'universo viscerale della giovinezza per raccontare tanto la profondita dei legami con il nostro passato quanto la corsa mozzafiato verso il nostro futuro. "

Un debut aclamado por la crítica americana.La vida de la familia Torres es un caos. El padre, puertorriqueño «Paps», y la madre, nacida en Brooklyn «Ma», deciden tener tres hijos pese a su precaria s

Three brothers tear their way through childhood-smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from rubbish, hiding when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn-he's Puerto Rican, she's white-barely out of childhood themselves, and their love is a serious, dangerous thing. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to forge his own way in the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and incredibly powerful.

Galardonada conel National Book Award 2023,unanoveladeslumbrante quedesentierra unepisodiofundacional de lacomunidad queer yexploralosorígenes desupatologización.«Sedifuminanloslímites de la Historia

Galardonada con el National Book Award 2023, una novela deslumbrante que desentierra un episodio fundacional de la comunidad queer y explora los orígenes de su patologización. "Se difuminan los límites de la Historia, la autobiografia y la ficcion con el arte. Hermoso".Sam Sacks, The Wall Street JournalEn un remoto asilo en el desierto, un hombre joven acompaña a un moribundo. Han pasado diez años desde que coincidieran brevemente en una institucion psiquiatrica. Ahora, el que esta punto de morir le pide al otro que termine el proyecto al que ha dedicado su vida: la reconstruccion de la singular historia de Jan Gay. Esta investigadora, escritora y activista queer de principios del siglo XX dedico su vida a documentar las vidas lesbianas y la cultura nudista en Estados Unidos y Europa, y sin embargo su trabajo fue el origen de un manual sobre la homosexualidad como perversion titulado Desviaciones sexuales: un estudio de los patrones homosexuales. La lectura de las misteriosas paginas tachadas de dicho manual infame acompañara las vigil

An intimate, emotionally rich novel, in which two men - young and old - reckon with queer histories and their place within them, from the critically acclaimed author of We the AnimalsJuan Gay is on his deathbed. He has decided to spend his last days in The Palace: a monumental, fading institution in the desert, which was an asylum in another lifetime. There, a young man tends to this dying soul - someone who Juan met only once, but who has haunted the edges of his life ever since.As the end approaches, the two trade stories - resurrecting lost loves, lives, mothers and fathers - and their lives are woven, ineluctably, into a broader story of pathology and oppression. Charged with sifting through Juan's belongings, our narrator uncovers a copy of Sex Variants: A Study in Homosexual Patterns, its pages blacked out, censored, reduced down to poetic dispatches. And, as he sifts through the manuscript, another story is told: that of Jan Gay - a radical, queer anthropologist - whose ground-breaking work was co-opted, and stifled, by the committee she served.