In the vigorous and growing bibliography of Karina Sainz Borgo we discover a strange and fascinating balance between current literature and the reconquest of scenes of the most brilliant Latin American narrative of the XNUMXth century. Because not a few discover nuances of Borges or García Márquez included.
The overwhelming comparisons that were already born with her first great novel did not make a dent in an author who has simply continued on her own path despite everything. And so we already enjoy two great novels and we long for new installments of that life that rescues a few traces of manners from here and there to suddenly devour it by that avant-garde capable of playing with scenarios and lives like mobile trompe l'oeil that slide before our eyes of the most unexpected and fascinating way.
Literature usually inhabits common places. The compositions tend to stick to the hook, knot and ending or to the totum revolutum of more modern contributions. Karina Sainz plays something else, writes something else. Because in his imagination everything has a place and surprise is a slope that refreshes and energizes his already magnetic frames in his presentation. What points to a classic plot crumbles to the change of perspective, like a painting seen from new angles where proportions change. An author always to discover ...
Top 3 recommended books by Karina Sainz
The daughter of the Spanish
The novel with which Karina Sainz stormed the international publishing market. A disturbing plot about a crude realism, of closeness. An implosive tale of morality and related without concessions to the gallery, beyond a precious aesthetic of the form always in tune with the depth of the emotions unleashed.
Adelaida Falcón, a teacher from Caracas, dies after a long illness. His thirty-eight-year-old daughter Adelaida has no one and lives in a city where violence marks the daily rhythm of existence. Shortly after the burial, he finds his house taken over by a group of women under the orders of the Marshal. She knocks on her neighbor's door without finding an answer: Aurora Peralta, whom everyone calls "the daughter of the Spanish woman," has died. On the table in the living room, a letter informs him of the granting of the Spanish passport: a safe-conduct to flee from hell.
The daughter of the Spanish it is the portrait of a woman who escapes all stereotypes faced with an extreme situation. With her first novel, the journalist Karina Sainz Borgo, has become the great literary news of the year.
The Third Country
A third party is always in contention. At least in our dual and dichotomous world. Everything that opens to the third angle of any triangle happens towards the most obtuse of triangular representations... But I am not referring to loves or affairs. It is about everything that happens in that third country, so to speak. It has been Karina Sainz who has been in charge of providing it with borders and placing in its area inconceivable existences between guilt, sadness and a furious desire to stay alive to wait for the moment. Only the most prepared souls can live in this country without deciding to escape from the body they inhabit.
Everything happens on a border, the one that separates the eastern mountain range from the western one. Angustias Romero flees the plague with her husband and two children tied behind her back. The twins, seven-month-olds, die on the way, and, after storing them in shoe boxes, the couple goes to bury them in El Tercer País, the illegal cemetery run by the mythical Visitación Salazar.
Abandoned by her husband, Angustias will fight alongside the gravedigger against a hostile environment where the only law is dictated by those who are armed, where time is marked by fish, parties and the mysterious toys that someone leaves on the graves of the two children, while the danger and violence grow until the last minute blurring the boundaries between life and death.
The daughter of the Spanish It was the revelation of Spanish literature, translated into XNUMX languages and compared by critics with Borges and Coetzee. With The Third Country, Karina Sainz Borgo confirms her talent, and her belonging to a new Latin American literature that is conquering readers around the world and founding the thriller, western, the classic tragedy and the inheritance of the masters of the boom.
The island of Dr. Schubert
There must always be an island, each person's Ithaca where the world is transformed. Away from all vestiges of civilization, the world still seems authentic, connected to the universe from its starry nights and linked to the spirit from the overwhelming silence. A space gifted by the ocean to return to childhood, to the atavistic, to the desire for adventure.
In this story of boundless imagination and great beauty, Karina Sainz Borgo mixes reality with the fantastic and the myth to raise, with a very careful and very poetic prose, a new world centered on an imaginary island where Dr. Schubert lives, half a doctor and half adventurous.
This story, which is accompanied by the suggestive illustrations by Natàlia Pàmies, connects with the great adventure and fantasy books of all time, from the Odyssey, by Homer, to The Island of Doctor Moreau (which is honored in the title). , by HG Wells; Treasure Island, by Stevenson, or the most celebrated stories by Jack London and Emilio Salgari.
Other recommended books by Karina Sainz Borgo
Barbiturate Chronicles
The reasons for writing are in the end an excuse for the cradle writer, the one who is born with the gift and punishment of living to tell the tale. That is why it is always interesting to stop at a book in which the current author atones for his sin and offers himself as an eccehomo to the general reading public. The result is usually, as in this case, a touching and chilling approach. Because the shared abysses give us a lot to understand about creation as the only possible sublimation of self-destruction.
«When I landed in Spain more than twelve years ago I knew that if he wanted to survive, he had to write. Only in this way could I understand and have the strength to drive the canoe of my own prose. The texts that are part of Barbiturate Chronicles they are sketches of an abolition: that of the country that I left behind and that other to which I joined, Spain. This book is the pharmacopoeia of myself. It is the medical prescription of the one who writes to push the pill of disenchantment. It's my arsenic and my dissatisfaction. They are the dregs to which my astonishment and anger have ended. "
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