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portada Woodworm
Type
Physical Book
Year
2024
Language
English
Pages
144
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
20.6x12.7x1.8 cm
Weight
0.27 kg.
ISBN13
9781949641592

Woodworm

Layla Martínez (Author) · Sophie Hughes (Translated by) · Annie McDermott (Translated by) · Two Lines Press · Hardcover

Woodworm - Layla Martínez

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Synopsis "Woodworm"

The house breathes. The house contains bodies and secrets. The house is visited by ghosts, by angels that line the roof like insects, and by saints that burn the bedsheets with their haloes. It was built by a smalltime hustler as a means of controlling his wife, and even after so many years, their daughter and her granddaughter can’t leave. They may be witches or they may just be angry, but when the mysterious disappearance of a young boy draws unwanted attention, the two isolated women, already subjects of public scorn, combine forces with the spirits that haunt them in pursuit of something that resembles justice.

In this lush translation by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott, Layla Martinez’s eerie debut novel is class-conscious horror that drags generations of monsters into the sun. Described by Mariana Enriquez as “a house of women and shadows, built from poetry and revenge,” this vision of a broken family in our unjust world places power in the hands of the eccentric, the radical, and the desperate.
Layla Martínez
  (Author)
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Layla Martínez (Madrid, 1987) es una escritora, columnista y editora española con formación en Ciencias Políticas y un máster en Sexología, cuya obra se mueve entre la poesía, el ensayo y la narrativa contemporánea. Comenzó publicando libros de poemas y ensayos que exploran desde la imaginería social hasta las tensiones culturales de nuestro tiempo. Su escritura combina sensibilidad crítica, compromiso social y una voz propia, y también colabora en medios escritos y coordina proyectos editoriales independientes.

Su novela Carcoma (2021) es una pieza central en su trayectoria: un relato de terror gótico y realismo mágico que utiliza el espacio claustrofóbico de una casa rural para reflexionar sobre la violencia de género, las heridas de la Guerra Civil española y las jerarquías socioeconómicas. La obra ha obtenido reconocimientos importantes, incluyendo el premio Ignotus a Mejor Novela Corta y otros galardones que han posicionado a Martínez como una de las voces más innovadoras de la literatura española reciente, además de haber sido traducida a varios idiomas y elegida para importantes listados de lectura.
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