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La historia de amor latente entre ambos protagonistas parece anunciar la posibilidad de su absoluci n, pero  sta se ve frustrada fatalmente cuando el jefe de su banda, un cura desalmado, decide prescindir de ellos y les tiende a traici n una trampa destinada a eliminarlos. La nueva novela de Emiliano Monge, ganador en 2012 del Premio Ja n (Espa a), es una implacable obra sobre un mundo espeluznante, narrada con una maestr a literaria inigualable. \u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e This work recreates the collective drama of migration in a space spoiled by misery and the morality of those who inhabit it, but also a space that gives rise to an enigmatic story of unexpected love. Epitafio and Estela are members of a criminal organization involved in human trafficking. Their victims are generally Central American migrants who enter the Mexican territory in their eagerness to reach better living conditions in the United States, without ever imagining that they will come across a diabolical customs department marked by violence, hatred, and mean-spirited interests. The story of unrequited love between the protagonists seems to portend the possibility of their absolution, but this notion is fatally thwarted when the leader of their group, a heartless priest, decides to get rid of them and lays a trap destined to eliminate them. 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Y el signo que preside esta constelación es el de la Violencia.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLa superficie más honda\u003c\/i\u003e es un bestiario del hombre como lobo de sí mismo: de la árida intimidad del terror familiar hasta la voracidad de un linchamiento, físico o mediático, la ira y la erosión son aquí las soberanas. Como si los personajes fueran peones de una voluntad vaporosa pero total, el destino personal y el devenir social actúan en estos relatos como una fuerza anónima que lo ordena todo. Es decir: que lo disuelve todo.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Con un estilo implacable, Emiliano Monge construye precisas atmósferas de opresión. Desde las primeras palabras de cada cuento, se insinúa una vaguedad acechante, un vacío que se expande feroz hasta llevar a los microuniversos a su disolución final. Agujeros negros de ironía se abren por todas partes, pero en este caso el humor no ofrece un alivio o una salida, sino que hace aún más profunda la corrosión. Personajes -y lectores- se descubren sospechando que quizás nunca han estado aquí, en esta delgada profundidad que llamamos mundo, y al final no queda más consuelo que el de la desbandada.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e By \u003ci\u003eEmiliano Monge\u003c\/i\u003e, author of Las tierras arrasadas, \u003ci\u003ewinner of the 9th Elena Poniatowska Iberoamerican Novel Prize.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe eleven short stories gathered in this book depict the ghost of a constellation. And the ruling sign of this constellation is that of Violence.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Deepest Surface\u003c\/i\u003e is a bestiary of man as the wolf himself: from the dry intimacy of familiar terror to the voracity of a lynching--either physical or by the media--here, wrath and erosion are king. As if the characters were pawns of some diaphanous will, personal destiny and social transformation act in these tales like an anonymous force that arranges everything. That is to say: it dissolves everything. With a merciless style, \u003ci\u003eEmiliano Monge\u003c\/i\u003e constructs precise atmospheres of oppression. From the first words in each story, a lurking vagueness insinuates itself, an emptiness that expands ferociously until it pushes the microuniverses to their final dissolution. Black holes of irony open up all around, but in this case humor doesn't offer relief or a way out, but rather makes the corrosion more profound. Characters--and readers--discover themselves suspecting that perhaps they have never been here, in this thin depth that we call the world, and in the end there is no solace but that of escape.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53639588938001,"sku":"NLS9798890987020","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53665352679697,"sku":"NIN9798890987020","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798890987020.jpg?v=1781012176"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-emiliano-monge.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}