The Bad Ones, Camila Sosa Villada

When she arrived in Córdoba to study at university, one night, scared to death, she went to spy on the transvestites in Parque Sarmiento and found her first place of belonging in the world. Las malas is a rite of passage, a fairy tale and a horror story, a group portrait, an explosive manifesto, a guided tour into its author's imagination, and a chronicle unlike any other. In its DNA converge the two trans facets that most repel and terrify polite society: transvestite fury and the joy of being a transvestite. In her literary voice coexist Marguerite Duras, Wislawa Szymborska, and Carson McCullers, with a Cordoban accent. Las malas is the kind of book that, as soon as we finish reading it, we want the whole world to read.

"When we write, my dear Cami, our ancestors rise from filthy death, from sadness and loneliness, and we avenge the destiny imposed on us by this filthy world, and we are finally our dream, being born, boiling, being born, boiling, being born..."
SUSY SHOCK

"Villada shouts truth in a veritably trans prose and from there demands a new hermeneutics from everyone outside our community. Is what has been fictionalized to the point of exacerbation true? Is all this phantasmagoria true? Yes! Because Camila paints us there in all our densities, and there she exposes you in your lies and ominous actions against us."
MARLENE WAYAR

Novel winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award in 2020; the Finestres de Narrativa en Español in 2020 and the Grand Prix de l'Héroïne 2021.