Acequia
Amaury René Sánchez Colmenares

FICTION | 2024 | 112 pages

WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL LAS YUBARTAS PRIZE

Lying publishing houses, retired comedians, and children lost underground converge in this prodigious novel, a kaleidoscope of characters and narrative threads that weave together the biography of a city, Cuernavaca, and its history and inhabitants. Through skillfully intertwined fragments that move between the individual and the collective, Amaury Colmenares presents us with a hilarious, biting, and lyrical comedy. Challenging like a puzzle and light as a smile, this novel gives back the potential for playfulness and invention in narrative

Acequia is the winner of the inaugural Las Yubartas Prize, selected unanimously by a jury composed of editors from ten independent publishing houses of Spain and the Americas.

*Represented on behalf of Editorial Antílope*

RIGHTS: spanish (argentina) SIGILO l spanish (bolivia) DUM DUM | spanish (chile) HUEDERS | spanish (colombia) LAGUNA LIBROS | spanish (ecuador) SEVERO | spanish (spain) LAS AFUERAS | spanish (mexico) ANTÍLOPE | spanish (peru) PESOPLUMA | spanish (uruguay) HUM | spanish (usa) CHATOS INHUMANOS

“This novel presents a huge diversity of perspectives, stories, and characters that come together in the true protagonist, the Mexican city of eternal spring.”
— Editorial Las Afueras
“Acequia is a novel that, through a clear, quick, and true style, submerges us in the absurd, in uncontrollable laughter. A hilarious comedy written with biting, fine irony.”
— Editorial Hueders
“Agile and disconcerting, Acequia is populated with vibrant characters that attract the reader in the agitated mapping of Cuernacavaca. A tangle of eccentricities, humor, and literary craft.”
— Editorial Pesopluma