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Ornamento

Juan Cárdenas

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Approaching fantasy, but with particularities that push it beyond the constraints of that genre, Ornamento details the encounter between a scientist and a group of volunteers, guinea pigs for a new recreational drug that solely affects women. After one of them, known only as Number 4, becomes romantically involved with the scientist and his wife, the couple finds their beliefs and assumptions--based in a position of socioeconomic privilege--shaken to the core.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Editorial Periferica
  • Publish Date: Jun 1st, 2016
  • Pages: 176
  • Language: Spanish
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.00in - 0.70in - 0.55lb
  • EAN: 9788416291076
  • Categories: • Literary• Thrillers - General

About the Author

Juan Cárdenas is a Colombian writer and translator and the author of Carreras delictivas and Zumbido. Considered one of Latin America's most promising young authors, he received a creative grant from Madrid's prestigious Residencia de Estudiantes between 2008 and 2010.

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"With this story, Cárdenas achieves, once again, a detailed description of the Latin American scene, not by mentioning the places or countries, but by the attitudes and accents of his characters." --Verónica Figueroa, El País
"Ornamento es una novela densa en ideas, ingeniosa en el estilo (con fórmulas tan brillantes como la referencia a un "barroco de los narcos") y cercana a lo profético en lo que tiene de discurso denunciador." -- Nadal Suau, El Mundo
"Cárdenas posee una de las prosas más afiladas y precisas de la literatura actual en español. Una prosa que sabe pasar, en cuestión de segundos, de la cirugía desnuda al barroco sexual, de la contención extrema a la desatada poesía, aunque predomine en ella el tono de la mesura. [...] La acidez con que describe los mecanismos del neocapitalismo es brutal. El modo de plantear el problema de la revolución y su dimensión femenina es muy sugerente. El texto se abre continuamente con metáforas que no dejan de zumbar en la cabeza del lector."-- Jorge Carrión, Otra Parte
"El ambiente de la novela va escalando peldaños de desasosiego, coreado por los perros que han mutado los inquietantes ladridos iniciales por terríficos aullidos de bestias encadenadas." --Teresa Lezcano, Sur