The Mountain of Furies, Fernanda Trías

A woman lives on the mountainside, amidst the descending mist and the fertile foliage. Her mission is to guard the borders, to alert the watchman of any anomaly. In her notebooks, she writes about her leisurely routine and the memories of a childhood marked by a brutal mother and an unfulfilled desire to learn. In the background, the quarry can be heard, and the sound of armored trucks on the unpaved road. One day, a body appears in her garden, and disturbed and careful not to draw attention, she and the watchman decide to bury it. But another appears. And another and another and another…

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The new novel by the author of Mugre rosa, awarded the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize in 2021.

“Harsh, lyrical, cruel, and with the rare sweetness of voices that almost no one hears and even fewer write, El monte de las furias is a powerful and beautiful novel.”—Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

The prodigious writing, characteristic of Trías, shines in this unsettling and atmospheric novel, in which the themes of motherhood, violence, and the relationship with nature reappear, and with what force they shake the reader.