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La Azotea

By Fernanda Trías
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Empezamos allí donde terminamos: ¿qué ha ocurrido en este apartamento en ruinas, separado del mundo exterior?

En un apartamento en ruinas, en una ciudad uruguaya sin nombre, un padre y su hija se encierran y se aíslan del mundo exterior. “El mundo es esta casa”, dice Clara. La azotea se vuelve su último y único acceso a la libertad. Hay un solo testigo: el canario.A medida que los vínculos de Clara con el afuera se van extinguiendo -la vecina que deja de venir, el novio cuya existencia es aparente solo a través de un embarazo-, la desesperación y la paranoia van tomando protagonismo. Es un abrazo que asfixia, y nosotros estamos aquí con ella, nuestra narradora, aterrados ante lo que trae el devenir.

In a rundown apartment building, in an unnamed city in Uruguay, a father and daughter close themselves off from the world. ‘The world is this house’, says Clara, and the rooftop becomes their last recess of freedom. A pet canary is their only witness.As Clara’s connection to the outside is stripped away—the neighbor who stops coming by, the lover whose existence is only known by a pregnancy—desperation and paranoia take hold. It's a stifling embrace, and we are there with her, our narrator, dreading what we know the future holds.

In a rundown apartment building, in an unnamed city in Uruguay, a father and daughter close themselves off from the world.

"The world is this house," says Clara, and the rooftop becomes their last recess of freedom. A pet canary is their only witness. 

As Clara’s connection to the outside is stripped away—the neighbor who stops coming by, the lover whose existence is only known by a pregnancy—desperation and paranoia take hold. It's a stifling embrace, and we are there with her, our narrator, dreading what we know the future holds.

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About Fernanda Trías

Considerada una de las autoras del ‘nuevo Boom de literatura latinoamericana’, Fernanda Trías (Uruguay, 1976) es sin duda una de las voces más prominentes del Río de la Plata y de América Latina. Ha publicado las novelas Cuaderno para un solo ojo (2002), La azotea ( 2001), La ciudad invencible (2014), y Mugre Rosa (2020); también la colección de cuentos No soñarás flores , nominado al Premio Hispanoamericano de Cuento Gabriel García Márquez 2017 como uno de los trece mejores libros de cuentos en habla hispana. En 2004 obtuvo la beca Unesco-Aschberg para escritores y se estableció en Francia. Así empezó un período itinerante que incluyó las ciudades de Berlín, Buenos Aires, Nueva York, Valparaíso y Bogotá, donde actualmente es profesora en la Maestría en Escrituras Creativas de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Considered to be one of the authors forming part of the 'new Latin American Boom’ of women writers, Fernanda Trías (Uruguay, 1976) is without doubt one of the most prominent literary voices in today’s River Plate region and in all of Latin America. Her books have been published in Spain as well as in Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, and France.

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