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Nefando

By Mónica Ojeda & Sarah Booker
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A techno-horror portrait of the fears and desires of six young artists whose lives are upended by a controversial video game, from National Book Award finalist Mónica Ojeda.

Six young artists share an apartment in Barcelona: Kiki Ortega, a researcher writing a pornographic novel; Iván Herrera, a writer whose prose reveals a deeply conflicted relationship with his body; three siblings, Irene, Emilio, and Cecilia, who quietly search for ways to transcend their abuse as children; and El Cuco Martínez, a video-game designer whose creations push beneath the substrate of the digital world. All of them are connected in different ways to Nefando, a controversial cult video game whose purpose remains a mystery. In the parallel reality of the game, players found relief from the pain of past trauma and present shame, but also a frighteningly elastic sense of self and ethics. Is Nefando a game for horror enthusiasts, a challenge to players' morals, or a poetic exercise? What happens in a virtual world that admits every taboo?


Unsparing, addictive, and perverse, Nefando takes us to the darkest corners of the web, revealing the inevitable entanglement of digital and physical worlds, and of technology and horror.

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3.5
“Magistral narración del lado obscuro del ser humano. La lectura me abrumó con Las luces y sombras de las relaciones humanas y los gritos de las infancias robadas. Un libro desgarrador por el indescriptible horror de las atrocidades aquí narradas.”
“Nefando... No se muy bien de que trato este libro. No me gustó tanto como Mandíbula, sin embargo tiene aspectos destacados como por ejemplo la crítica que se hace a las imágenes que proyectamos en la vida real y en internet, que muchas veces esconden humanos monstruosos. El libro es muy disperso, no sé si es adrede como ella misma se intenta explicar o es que tenía una idea y no supo desarrollarla bien. Pienso que el libro carece de motivaciones y se explaya en lo grotesco sin, para mí, razones. Pensé que me dejaría ese mal sabor de boca de otro libro sobre un tema similar (La Viuda de Fiona Barton), pero no fue así. Hay un recursos que la utora repite y que en este libro, carecía de justificaciones (las voces intercaladas), aunque si está mejor resuelto que en Mandíbula con sus canciones infantiles.”

About Mónica Ojeda

Mónica Ojeda (Ecuador, 1988) is the author of the novels La desfiguración Silva (Premio Alba Narrativa, 2014), Nefando (Candaya, 2016), and Mandíbula (Candaya, 2018), as well as the poetry collections El ciclo de las piedras (Rastro de la Iguana, 2015) and Historia de la leche (Candaya, 2020). Her stories have been published in the anthology Emergencias: Doce cuentos iberoamericanos (Candaya, 2014) and the collections Caninos (Editorial Turbina, 2017) and Las voladoras (Páginas de Espuma, 2020). In 2017, she was included on the Bógota39 list of the best thirty-nine Latin American writers under forty, and in 2019, she received the Prince Claus Next Generation Award in honor of her outstanding literary achievements.

Sarah Booker is an educator and literary translator. Her translations include Mónica Ojeda’s Jawbone, Gabriela Ponce’s Blood Red, and Cristina Rivera Garza’s New and Selected Stories, Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country, and The Iliac Crest. She has a PhD in Hispanic Literature from UNC-Chapel Hill and is currently based in Morganton, North Carolina where she teaches Spanish at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

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