In Los Días Animals, the winner of the 2019 «Gerardo Cornejo Murrieta» National Narrative Prize, four stories that seem independent unite different characters in different times and spaces through a common thread: human relationships.
In this compilation, Jorge Zúñiga shows us how parents, brothers-in-law, (ex) partners and siblings become entangled in a tangle of revenge, nostalgia, resentments, complex loves and overwhelming forebodings.
From Tijuana to Xalapa, from conjugal happiness to relentless ruptures, the protagonists of these stories face their fears, the demons outside and within them, and face uncertainty and death, as if they were preparing to survive a flood.
The trip of a woman to Tijuana to visit her younger sister, the move of a man who has just separated from his partner, the meeting of a young woman with her boyfriend's sister and brother-in-law...read more
