Lluvia
Karina Pacheco Medrano
SHORT STORIES | 2018 | 112 pages
The disappearance of a young girl who plays with magical beings every day, people displaced by war who suffer from the contempt of those who should protect them, a group of university students who debuts among the ranks of the MRTA (The Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement), Amazonian communities who are razed by the modern world’s greed, a wanderer who returns to his birthplace in search for pieces of his identity.
Like looking into an infinite well, these nine stories invite us to be submerged in the chasms of innocence on a symbolic path where memory—like an unstoppable torrent in the shape of a lake, rain, the ocean, or dew—filters into the most disparate landscapes in a society that seems to be unable to find redemption.
In this new collection of stories that goes from the crudest realism to an air of fantasy, Pacheco explores the different shades of the human condition with subtle drama: desire, betrayal, disenchantment, love, and death burst in like a storm, irreversibly disrupting each character’s destiny.
RIGHTS: spanish SEIX BARRAL
Niños del pájaro azul
SHORT STORIES, 2024
El año del viento
NOVEL, 2021
La sangre, el polvo, la nieve
NOVEL, 2010/2021
El bosque de tu nombre
NOVEL, 2013/2019
Lluvia
SHORT STORIES, 2018
Las orillas del aire
NOVEL, 2017
Miradas. Antología de cuentos
SHORT STORIES, 2015
El sendero de los rayos
SHORT STORIES, 2013
Cabeza y orquídeas
NOVEL , 2012
Alma alga
SHORT STORIES, 2010
No olvides nuestros nombres
NOVEL, 2009
La voluntad del molle
NOVEL, 2006