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Eartheater

by Dolores Reyes · 2019

Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people—an imaginative synthesis of mystery and… more

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Empezaba a ver que los que buscan a una persona tienen algo, una marca cerca de los ojos, de la boca, la mezcla de dolor, de bronca, de fuerza, de espera, hecha cuerpo. Algo roto, en donde vive el que no vuelve.
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El mundo debía ser más grande de lo que siempre había creído para que pudiera desaparecer tanta gente.
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Tenés tantas ganas de ganar, que no aprendés a jugar.
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A veces pensaba que, si mi hermano no apareciera más, yo habrí sido capaz de tragarme toda la tierra de la casa, de romperla, de hacerla temblar.
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Cierro los ojos para apoyar las manos sobre la tierra que acaba de taparte, mamá, y se me hace de noche. Cierro los puños, atrapo y la llevo a la boca. La fuerza de la tierra que te devora es oscura y tiene el gusto del tronco de un árbol. Me gusta, me muestra, me hace ver.
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The words seared my throat but I didn't want to speak them: words can also stain you.
Señorita Ana came to me on nights I slept without waking. In my dreams, below the sign she was found under and over earth made electric by the acrid light that exuded off bones turning to dust, Señorita Ana rotted like flesh off a dead dog on the road. Her bones weren’t meek like domesticated animals. They stalked me and their fury contained the devastating force of those who seek justice.
No se extraña a un hijo, un hermano, una madre o un amigo igual que a otro

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Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people—an imaginative synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives.

Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Eartheater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth—a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother’s death. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her visions to herself. But when Earth-eater begins an unlikely relationship with a withdrawn police officer, word of her ability begins to spread, and soon desperate members of her community beg for her help, anxious to uncover the truth about their own loved ones.

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First published
2019
Genre
Fiction
Goodreads rating
3.63 (27k ratings)

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