Nazarena

In the family home of La Araira, where eight sisters live under the shadow of a devastated mother and a decaying lineage, every silence is a threat. The seventh, Nazarena, obsessively sweeps the patio to ward off misfortune, but it is in the dust that the cracks appear: the sisters' rivalries, the dead who return, desire as an escape, animals that foretell disaster, and a past that manifests itself in visions and terror. Karina Sainz Borgo's prose, filled with intense imagery and ancestral resonances, gradually illuminates what each of these women tries to conceal.