Reading this book shudders. Marionn Zavala's stories find their origin in the convulsive reality that women face in Mexican society. These stories update with vigor and expressive fierceness the violence that annihilates the female body, the singularity and power of her desire and her vital aspiration. Ninfa, Cathy, Marta and Aunt Elo live in a world that does not give them the possibility of their own free existence and in which everyday talk, popular songs and the cynical discourse of politicians underpin a permanent aggression, that of a suffocating environment in which the insulting word is followed by the attack without contemplation. Marionn Zavala recovers from a world full of pain and violence stories in which, fortunately, tenderness and pleasure are not doomed to become extinct. On the contrary. Through a bold, always eloquent immersion in the corporeal fullness of their sen...read more
