Efectos Personales / Personal Effects [Spanish]

By Marina Mariasch

Fue una noche blanca, estridente. Ese d a de abril no me despert porque no hab a dormido". En su cumplea os, una madre discute con su hija mayor por unos saquitos de t . La hija se va de la casa pegando un portazo. Es la ltima vez que se ven. Unos d as despu s, la madre se arroja al vac o desde el cuarto de un hotel c ntrico en Buenos Aires. Este libro es una exploraci n literaria y a la vez visceral de ese suicidio. M s que preguntarse por qu , la hija y narradora recrea el antes y el despu s, las reacciones dentro y fuera de la familia, la trama de las relaciones, la noci n del amor, el trauma y las estrategias para lidiar con l. En un mundo donde las apariencias priman, las convenciones son ampliamente aceptadas y parece haber amplias posibilidades, las mujeres viven y sufren mientras los hombres parecen circular como fantasmas. Es un mundo en el cual lo que se ve a de un modo se ve de otro a trav s del prisma de ese pasaje al acto prolijo y planificado, que nadie pod a imaginar. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "It was a sleepless, raucous night. That day in April, I didn't wake up because I hadn't slept." On her birthday, a mother argues with her eldest daughter over some tea bags. The daughter storms out of the house, slamming the door behind her. It is the last time they see each other. A few days later, the mother throws herself from a window in a downtown Buenos Aires hotel room. This book is a literary and visceral exploration of that suicide. Rather than asking why, the daughter and narrator recreates the before and after, the reactions within and outside the family, the web of relationships, the notion of love, the trauma, and the strategies for coping with it. In a world where appearances reign supreme, conventions are widely accepted, and possibilities seem boundless, women live and suffer while men seem to drift about like ghosts. It is a world in which what was once seen one way is now viewed through the prism of that meticulous, planned act--one that no one could have imagined.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 6076410736
• ISBN13: 9786076410738
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Hachette Voces
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"