«Hiram Ruvalcaba posee una destreza implacable para fraguar tramas inquietantes y combinar herencias que van del true crime y el g鏒ico sure隳 a la cr鏮ica latinoamericana o lo rulfiano y arreolesco, pero su escritura es tambi幯 algo m嫳: un conmovedor testimonio de la masculinidad del siglo xxi intentando dialogar con sus demonios sin hipocres燰 y, de ser posible, sin miedo. -Juli嫕 Herbert
En 1996, Sagrario muri?baleada en la entrada de su residencia; los disparos alertaron a los vecinos, incluyendo a Hiram, el hijo mayor de la familia Ruvalcaba, de apenas ocho a隳s. Poco despu廥, en el a隳 2000, tambi幯 a Roc甐 le arrebataron la vida de forma violenta: fue asesinada y sepultada a medias en la sala de su casa. En 2005, la frontera simb鏊ica entre un asesinato noticioso, an鏮imo, y el de alguien consangu璯eo termin?por quebrarse. El Jalisco rural y semiurbano se hab燰 convertido en una tolvanera de cad嫛eres, y uno de ellos era el del t甐 Antonio Ruvalcaba.
Tres asesinatos, apenas tres muertes entre todas esas que no somos capaces de contabilizar ni de reconocer. A partir de ellas, Hiram Ruvalcaba entreteje una impresionante novela debut que, desde la autoficci鏮, lo posiciona como digno heredero de la tradici鏮 literaria de las tierras de Rulfo y Arreola.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Hiram Ruvalcaba is skilled at crafting unsettling plots and combining influences that range from true crime and Southern Gothic to Latin American chronicle, Juan Rulfo and Juan Jos?Arreola. But his writing is also more than that: It is a moving testimony to twenty-first century masculinity and an attempt to face one's demons head on, without hypocrisy or, if possible, fear." - Juli嫕 Herbert In 1996, Sagrario was shot to death outside his home. His neighbors rushed to the scene, including 8-year-old Hiram, the eldest of the Ruvalcaba children. Just four years later, in 2000, Roc甐 too died a violent death, murdered and half buried in her living room. Finally, in 2005, the symbolic border between unknown, sensationalist killer and blood relative collapses as the body count rises in rural and suburban Jalisco, with Hiram's uncle, Antonio Ruvalcaba, among the victims.
Three murders, among countless others that have left a death toll too high to process. Hiram Ruvalcaba uses them as the starting point for this impressive debut, an autobiographical novel that positions him as a worthy heir to a Mexican literary tradition founded by masters such as Rulfo and Arreola.
