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EL CELO

Sabina Urraca

The night she found the dog, the woman was high. That's why she let it follow her home. Now, she lives with an animal that fills up with all the energy she lacks and suddenly goes into an uncontrollable heat.

The Human is thirty-two, but she does not feel desire anymore.

The woman is thirty-two years old, but she no longer desires. She is in life, but she does not live it. She recently arrived in the city, fleeing her days in the countryside with a boyfriend she had. She suffers from strange symptoms, tremors, and bruises that appear on their own. One day, she bends down to tie her shoelaces and discovers she can't. The woman fears a curse that is advancing. To get the psychiatrist to prescribe more anxiolytics, she will meet Mecha, a fascinating woman who, along with the dog, becomes an animal difficult to save.

Sabina Urraca (San Sebastián, 1984) is a writer and editor. As an editor, she made her debut with Panza de burro by Andrea Abreu (Editorial Barrett), and is now resident editor of Caballo de Troya/PRH ever since.

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Book Published 2024-05-01 by Alfaguara

Comments

The reader should not expect a condescending or conventional story. This is a book by Sabina Urraca, and while pain is present, it is interspersed with a dazzling, acerbic humor that explores all the ridiculousness of human beings, providing a lucid look at the reasons behind who we are. All of this is narrated with an enveloping and piercing prose, raw and uncomfortable, capable of speaking without filters and confronting the reader with their prejudices and contradictions.

A sort of consolidation of what is already one of the boldest perspectives in contemporary literature in our country.

A work as intricate as it is addictive. [.] A lifeline that keeps you afloat and highlights so many things. In In Heat, there is so much to choose from and, believe me, it's all worth it.

In Heat is a beauty. A stark beauty, at times cruel, that tears your heart out and smashes it only to then insert it, whole and intact, into another part of the body completely dislocated, widened, and opened. Sore and alive. [.] One of the readings of the year, an exciting fiction by one of the most interesting writers on the national scene, a book to get lost in and soak up literature through its questions, meanings, images, symbols, poetry, and wonder.

In Heat is the consecration of a genuinely admirable narrative idea. [...] Urraca achieves precious pages that expand their echo to the power dilemmas that constitute us. [...] Hopefully, those who fear female desire will confront her writing.

A story that talks about domestication, both personal and of others, and explores the complexity of human relationships and affections. [.] We loved In Heat. Sabina Urraca's stories tell our stories.

Sabina Urraca writes about females in heat, punished, mistreated, lovers, loved, wild, hunted, together in a pack. She writes about matriarchy, illness, loss of innocence, sisterhood, fear, and heartbreak, but above all, she tells our stories: those of all the rabid bitches.

In Heat is sordid, at times very dark, and yet strangely luminous. Even a little bit comic. But the author knows the mechanism of intrigue and skillfully places the pieces of the puzzle. She takes savage, incomplete bites out of the story that compel you to keep reading. [.] Sabina Urraca decisively bets on complex, unexampled, convoluted situations as real as life itself when stripped of artifices. When it is life itself.

Urraca builds a novel about desire and its domestication, but also about how we tell (ourselves) what we live.

Urraca not only manages, with an extremely agile and provocative style, to unravel the complexities of an unconventional relationship, but also escapes any imaginable pretense. Perhaps because good literature, and hers is, ends up overflowing the container that holds it.

A reflection on how literary narrative governs our lives, the destructive power of abuse, and how the fear it provokes can steal anyone's soul. [.] A struggle against domestication. A surrender to tenderness.

One of the most original and gifted Spanish writers today. [.] A book about domestication. And savagery. A game between reality and desire. Also about terror.

A splendid contemporary fable.

It kept me awake, but happy, because this is what you should feel with books. New things. It shakes you. Sabina plays, does not conform, breaks the text, and you feel the words galloping. A book about everything that happens when life runs you over, and you want to die. [.] When you manage to lift your eyes from its pages, you'll realize that life has continued, and you've been inside those pages holding the pain they contain. A unique experience.