La lengua extranjera

Two young people venture into a strange land in search of an old colonial settlement. They flee the fires, take refuge in hotels lost in the jungle, and a fragile intimacy develops between them, fraught with the suspicion that every word might mean the opposite of what it seems. From this journey, Brais Lamela unfolds an expansive and singular narrative world, in which different voices, times, and stories intertwine: the anxious letters of a traveler on the other side of the Atlantic, a sleepless night sustained by reading aloud, and, like a subterranean chorus, a group of looted statues demanding to be returned. The Foreign Language is an ambitious and immersive novel about art, memory, and the long shadow of colonial violence; about language as a force capable of destabilizing and transforming the world.