Bajo el agua negra, Mariana Enríquez - Audiocuento (Voz humana)

Mariana Enriquez's world isn't necessarily ours, and yet it ends up being one. It only takes a few sentences to set foot in it, breathe it, and never forget it, thanks to an unusual emotional vividness. With everyday life turning into a nightmare, the reader wakes up dejected, disturbed by stories and images they'll never be able to get out of their heads. The self-proclaimed "hot women," protesting against an extreme form of domestic violence that has gone viral; a student who tears out her nails and eyelashes, and another who tries to help her; the years of government-ordered blackouts during which three friends poison themselves, friends who will remain friends until death do them part; the notorious serial killer named Petiso Orejudo, who was only nine years old; Hikikomori, black magic, jealousy, heartbreak, rural superstitions, abandoned or haunted buildings... In these eleven stories, the reader is forced to forget themselves to follow the adventures and investigations of bodies that disappear or reappear at the least expected moment. Whether a social worker, a police officer, or a tour guide, the protagonists struggle to foster socially invisible beings, thus exploring the weight of guilt, compassion, cruelty, the difficulties of coexistence, and a terror as profound as it is credible. Mariana Enriquez is one of the most courageous and surprising narrators of the 21st century, not only in the new Argentine literature by writers born during the dictatorship but in the literature of any country or language. Mariana Enriquez transforms literary genres into narrative devices, from crime fiction to gritty realism, including horror, chronicles, and humor, and delves with pain and beauty into the roots, flames, and darkness of all existence.