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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR<BR>A 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST<BR>A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, TIME AND NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR<BR><BR>'Meticulously written and deeply moving . . . A triumph' JACKIE KAY<BR>'Absorbing and poetic' ECONOMIST<BR>'Full of tenderness and beauty' MARIANA ENRIQUEZ<BR><BR>From one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, an astonishing work of non-fiction that illuminates an epidemic of femicide in Mexico through the death of one woman.<BR><BR>I seek justice, I finally said. I seek justice for my sister . . . Sometimes it takes twenty-nine years to say it out loud, to say it out loud on a phone call with a lawyer at the General Attorney's office: I seek justice.<BR><BR>On the dawn of 16 July 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, Cristina Rivera Garza's sister, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend and subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of femicide.<BR><BR>She was a twenty-year-old architecture student who had been trying for years to end her relationship with a high school boyfriend who insisted on not letting her go. A few weeks before the tragedy, Liliana made a definitive decision: at the height of her winter she had discovered that, as Albert Camus had said, there was an invincible summer in her. She would leave him behind. She would start a new life. She would do a master's degree and a doctorate; she would travel to London. But his decision was that she would not have a life without him.<BR><BR>Returning to Mexico after decades of living in the United States, Cristina Rivera Garza collects and curates evidence - handwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, voice recordings and architectural blueprints - to defy a pattern of increasingly normalised, gendered violence and understand the life lost. What she finds is Liliana: her sister's voice crossing time and, like that of so many disappeared and outraged women in Mexico, demanding justice.

A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025<BR><BR>A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FOR 2025<BR><BR>'A labyrinthine masterpiece' New York Times<BR>'A subversive twist on the traditional serial killer story' TIME<BR>'Obsessive, dreamlike and hallucinatory' Layla Martinez<BR><BR>beware of me, my love<BR>beware of the silent woman in the desert.<BR><BR>These are the words the Professor finds, scrawled in nail polish, above the mutilated corpse of a man.<BR><BR>She reports the crime to the police and becomes the first informant in an investigation led by the Detective, who has a newfound obsession with poetry. As the bodies of more men are discovered alongside cryptic lines of verse, it becomes clear that this is only one in a string of crimes - all connected, all with literary clues.<BR><BR>As the Professor becomes wrapped up in the murders, the boundaries of story - and of genre - break down. Can the Detective decipher the meaning of the poems in time to stop the spread of violence?<BR><BR>Translated by Sarah Booker and Robin Myers

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister’s murderer to justice years after the fact” (The Boston Globe), from “one of Mexico’s greatest living writers” (Jonathan Lethem).<BR>  <BR>“Part memoir, part true-crime story, Garza’s chronicle is both personal and political.”—The Washington Post<BR><BR>A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, Time, Chicago Public Library, She Reads, Electric Lit<BR><BR>October 18, 2019. Cristina Rivera Garza travels from her home in Texas to Mexico City, in search of an old, unresolved criminal file. “My name is Cristina Rivera Garza,” she writes in her request to the attorney general, “and I am writing to you as a relative of Liliana Rivera Garza, who was murdered on July 16, 1990.” It’s been twenty-nine years. Twenty-nine years, three months, and two days since Liliana was murdered by an abusive ex-boyfriend. Inspired by feminist movements across the world and enraged by the global epidemic of femicide and intimate partner violence, Cristina embarks on a path toward justice. Liliana’s Invincible Summer is the account—and the outcome—of that quest .<BR><BR>In luminous, poetic prose, Rivera Garza tells a singular yet universally resonant story: Liliana is a spirited, wondrously hopeful young woman who tried to survive in a world of increasingly normalized gendered violence. Rivera Garza traces her sister’s history, depicting everything from Liliana’s early romance with a handsome but possessive and short-tempered man to that exhilarating final summer of 1990 when she loved, thought, and traveled more widely and freely than she ever had before.<BR><BR>Using her skills as an acclaimed scholar, novelist, and poet, Rivera Garza collected and curated evidence—handwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, interviews with Liliana’s loved ones—to document her sister’s life. Through this remarkable and genre-defying memoir, she confronts the trauma of losing her sister and examines how this tragedy continues to shape who she is—and what she fights for—today.

*Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso 2021* El 16 de julio de 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza fue víctima de feminicidio. La asesinó su pareja con 20 años. Esta es su historia, contada en voz de su hermana. Una novela que rescata memorias y busca justicia para ella y para todas. El 16 de julio de 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, mi hermana, fue víctima de un feminicidio. Era una muchacha de 20 años, estudiante de arquitectura. Tenía años tratando de terminar su relación con un novio de la preparatoria que insistía en no dejarla ir. Unas cuantas semanas antes de la tragedia, Liliana por fin tomó una decisión definitiva: en lo más profundo del invierno había descubierto que en ella, como bien lo había dicho Albert Camus, había un invencible verano. Lo dejaría atrás. Empezaría una nueva vida. Haría una maestría y después un doctorado; viajaría a Londres. La decisión de él fue que ella no tendría una vida sin él. Hace apenas un año decidí abrir las cajas donde depositamos las pertenencias de mi hermana. Su voz atravesó el tiempo y, como la de tantas mujeres desaparecidas y ultrajadas en México, demandó justicia. El invencible verano de Liliana es una excavación en la vida de una mujer brillante y audaz que careció, como nosotros mismos, como todos los demás, del lenguaje necesario para identificar, denunciar y luchar contra la violencia sexista y el terrorismo de pareja que caracteriza a tantas relaciones patriarcales. Este libro es para celebrar su paso por la tierra y para decirle que, claro que sí, lo vamos a tirar. Al patriarcado lo vamos a tirar. Cristina Rivera Garza Reseñas:'Un amoroso homenaje, un libro abierto y en movimiento, una acción política desde la gran literatura.'Gabriela Wiener 'Este libro puede salvar vidas.'Edurne Portela, El Correo 'Un libro-ritual que convoca a la víctima y la restaura, que oficia una ceremonia de amor y memoria.'Nadal Suau, El Cultural Sobre la autora:'Advertencia: Cristina Rivera Garza es una escritora explosiva. Una diestra creadora de atmósferas, con un estilo poderoso, una lengua evocativa e indomable.'Lina Meruane 'Una auténtica revelación en las letras hispánicas.'Carlos Fuentes Sobre La cresta de Ilión:'El lenguaje no es asunto fácil. Rivera Garza da forma a su inquietud vital e intelectual con su urdimbre de gusano de seda y nos invita a entrever la luz que se atisba entre las fibras. A romper la crisálida y asistir a la metamorfosis. Tengo la impresión de que este libro, posiblemente queer, va de eso: metamorfosis.'Marta Sanz, Babelia Sobre Había mucha neblina o humo o no sé qué:' Había mucha neblina o humo o no sé qué de Cristina Rivera Garza, una obra tan buena como su título, que se hace preguntas oportunísimas sobre Rulfo y les da respuestas complejas, literarias, múltiples.'Nadal Suau, El Cultural Sobre Autobiografía de algodón:'"Migrar es también borrar", leemos en este extraordinario ejercicio de investigación, reescritura y restitución.'Jorge Carrión, The New York Times

'Cristina Rivera Garza hat etwas fast Magisches geschrieben: den Versuch, das Leben von Liliana wiederzuerlangen. Dieses Buch ist eine Offenbarung.' Mariana Enriquez'Lilianas unvergänglicher Sommer' ist das intime und zugleich vielschichtige Porträt einer Schwester. Es ist die aufwühlende Suche nach den Spuren einer jungen Frau. Es ist der unbedingte Wunsch, nach dem und über das Grauen zu schreiben und die eigene Trauer zuzulassen. Es ist ein funkelndes literarisches Werk von weltweiter Strahlkraft.Liliana kann besser schwimmen als ihre ältere Schwester, ist größer und aufgeschlossener. Sie hat einen festen Freund, sie studiert, schlägt sich die Nächte mit ihren Freundinnen um die Ohren. Sie trennt sich von ihrem Freund, lernt, geht ins Kino. Und dann: wird Liliana Rivera Garza ermordet. Der Täter ist ihr Ex-Partner, seither nicht verurteilt. 29 Jahre später kehrt die preisgekrönte Autorin Cristina Rivera Garza aus den USA nach Mexiko zurück, um sich dem Andenken an ihre Schwester Liliana zu widmen. Doch der Erinnerung an Liliana, an die Unbeschwertheit ihrer Jugend, an ihr Leben und ihr Sterben steht die Bürokratie der Justiz entgegen - und die Sprache. Die Sprache, um die Cristina Rivera Garza ringt, ist eine, die es nicht gibt, die es nicht geben kann, die es geben muss. Es ist eine Sprache, in der ein zu früh verlorenes Leben verstanden werden kann. Und die den Lebensfunken einer jungen, ausgelöschten Frau neu entfacht.

A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025<BR><BR>A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FOR 2025<BR><BR>'A labyrinthine masterpiece' New York Times<BR>'A subversive twist on the traditional serial killer story' TIME<BR>'Obsessive, dreamlike and hallucinatory' Layla Martinez<BR><BR>A city is always a cemetery.<BR><BR>When a professor named Cristina stumbles upon the corpse of a man in a dark alley, she finds a stark warning on the brick wall beside the body, scrawled in coral nail polish: 'Beware of me, my love / beware of the silent woman in the desert.' <BR><BR>After reporting the crime to the police, the professor becomes the main informant of the case, led by a detective with a newfound obsession with poetry and a long list of failures on her back. As the bodies of more men are found, the detective tries to decipher the meaning of the poems, and the stream of violence spreading throughout the city.<BR><BR>A dark and dazzling literary thriller that flips the traditional crime narrative on its head, Death Takes Me explores with masterful imagination the unstable terrains of gender and violence, death and desire.<BR><BR>Translated by Sarah Booker and Robin Myers