Electric Shamans at the Sun Festival, Mónica Ojeda

Year 5540 of the Andean calendar. Noa decides to escape her native Guayaquil with her best friend, Nicole, to attend Ruido Solar, a popular macrofestival that annually gathers thousands of young people—including musicians, dancers, poets, and shamans—for eight days and seven nights at the foot of one of the many volcanoes in the Andes. Left behind are families and the violence of the cities, and an hallucinated landscape unfolds, trembling to the rhythm of music and volcanic eruptions under a sky streaked with meteorites. For Noa, this will be the first stop before reuniting with the father who abandoned her when she was a child and who has lived for years in the high forests, a territory where the disappeared also hide, those who once went up to Ruido and never returned home.

Supported by extraordinary lyricism, dazzling aesthetics, and a brutal sense of rhythm, Electric Shamans at the Sun Festival is a great mystical journey to the primitive heart of music and dance; a lysergic and emotional journey that is at once the search for a father and a sense of belonging in a world that knows only loss and helplessness.

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Selected by Granta magazine as one of the 25 best young Spanish-language narrators

«Mónica Ojeda is a blazing black sun in the astral chart of contemporary horror.»
Fernanda Melchor

«In this novel, Mónica Ojeda invites readers to a retro-futuristic Andean festival in the mountains. Psychedelia, volcanoes, disintegration. And then the language that burns, and nothing is as it seems. Following her on this journey is, without a doubt, an intense experience.»
Mariana Enriquez

«With fear and fascination, that's how I read Mónica Ojeda. As if reading a spell, as if biting into flesh, fearing to find something sharp inside. So poetic, so disturbing and brutal.» -Samanta Schweblin