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ESTA CUERPA MÍA
When God naps, we whores are the candlelight.
Ditching their birth name of Leonardo and sporting an androgynous look, the protagonist of This Body of Mine is stuck in Tijuana after being conned by their border smugglers. Calling themselves Mónica and informally adopted by woman named Rosy, they soon master the tricks of this new world, a place of betrayals, euphoria and addiction. A few years pass and Mónica transitions from the relative safety of the city's motels to the dangers of the streets and the Jungle, the most sordid and notorious corner of Tijuana. Exhausted and drained, and with their mother's voice in their head, they decide to cut their losses and head home. The journey is hellish, but the homecoming is a blessing and a chance at a new beginning.
This Body of Mine is a daring and honest novel full of humor and music, love and sisterhood, but also hatred and pain. It describes a world of drugs, danger and hypocrisy; silicone, sequins and stilettos; sex in alleyways, hotels and cyberspace. Through his headstrong but tender protagonist, Uri Bleier will make you smell the street, taste the seaside breeze, and tap your toes to a cumbia beat.
Uri Bleier (Montevideo, 1989) was born a chilango, Jewish, and gayeach identity embraced with great pride. He barely graduated in International Business from Universidad Iberoamericana and later earned a master's degree in Business and Football Administration from the Johan Cruyff Institute. As he often says, learning to love himself was no easy feat, but here he is. He worked for several years in the family business and, for some time now, has focused on unlearning a poor education to shape himself as a writer.
His first approach to the cultural world was through contemporary art. He participated in various group and two-person exhibitions in Mexico City, Havana (Cuba), and Lille (France), primarily showcasing installation and performance pieces. Some of these exhibitions include Autolike (La Bombilla Verde, Havana, Cuba, 2016), Emotionless (Proyecto Medellín, Mexico City, 2017), GIF (Galería El Oficio, Havana, Cuba), ¿Quién te crees tú? (Periférico, Mexico City, 2018), and Ola Cuba (Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France).
He lives between Mexico City and Havana and has devoted his best time to literature for several years now. Confidently, he wrote a first novel that ultimately proved of little use. Since then, he has participated in several long-term writing workshops, including a year with Mario González Suárez (Mexico), another with Sabina Urraca (Spain), four months with Jorge Volpi (Mexico), six months with Mercedes Halfon (Argentina), over a year with María Fernanda Ampuero (Ecuador), and two editions of Pablo Simonetti's workshop at Universidad Finis Terrae (Chile).
From these experiences, he wrote a second novel that, according to his mentors, can already be considered a serious project, as well as Esta cuerpa mía (Alfaguara, 2024), whichaccording to his own false modestyseems to be where his voice truly begins to intertwine with his literary obsessions and concerns.
This Body of Mine is a daring and honest novel full of humor and music, love and sisterhood, but also hatred and pain. It describes a world of drugs, danger and hypocrisy; silicone, sequins and stilettos; sex in alleyways, hotels and cyberspace. Through his headstrong but tender protagonist, Uri Bleier will make you smell the street, taste the seaside breeze, and tap your toes to a cumbia beat.
Uri Bleier (Montevideo, 1989) was born a chilango, Jewish, and gayeach identity embraced with great pride. He barely graduated in International Business from Universidad Iberoamericana and later earned a master's degree in Business and Football Administration from the Johan Cruyff Institute. As he often says, learning to love himself was no easy feat, but here he is. He worked for several years in the family business and, for some time now, has focused on unlearning a poor education to shape himself as a writer.
His first approach to the cultural world was through contemporary art. He participated in various group and two-person exhibitions in Mexico City, Havana (Cuba), and Lille (France), primarily showcasing installation and performance pieces. Some of these exhibitions include Autolike (La Bombilla Verde, Havana, Cuba, 2016), Emotionless (Proyecto Medellín, Mexico City, 2017), GIF (Galería El Oficio, Havana, Cuba), ¿Quién te crees tú? (Periférico, Mexico City, 2018), and Ola Cuba (Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France).
He lives between Mexico City and Havana and has devoted his best time to literature for several years now. Confidently, he wrote a first novel that ultimately proved of little use. Since then, he has participated in several long-term writing workshops, including a year with Mario González Suárez (Mexico), another with Sabina Urraca (Spain), four months with Jorge Volpi (Mexico), six months with Mercedes Halfon (Argentina), over a year with María Fernanda Ampuero (Ecuador), and two editions of Pablo Simonetti's workshop at Universidad Finis Terrae (Chile).
From these experiences, he wrote a second novel that, according to his mentors, can already be considered a serious project, as well as Esta cuerpa mía (Alfaguara, 2024), whichaccording to his own false modestyseems to be where his voice truly begins to intertwine with his literary obsessions and concerns.
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Book Published 2025-06-03 by Alfaguara |