Un año de servicio a la habitación
Andrea Chapela

SHORT STORIES | 2019 | 116 pages

Winner of the 2019 National Juan José Arreola Story Prize

The relationship between two people in neighboring rooms. A woman who needs to know the measurements of every element that surrounds her. A group of people who lose objects and ideas. A man and the cat who taught him how to read.

The twenty-four stories that make up Un año de servicio a la habitación are small postcards that bring us closer to the lives of a group of people who inhabit the same place: the stories of temporary guests, residents, and employees cross paths in a hotel that serves as a vehicle to talk about liminal states and spaces. With precise and careful prose, Andrea Chapela opens a dialogue about the desire to belong, love, movement, work, and the search for an own place of enunciation.

RIGHTS: spanish EDITORIAL UNIVERSIDAD DE GUADALAJARA

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