Comemadre

‘[Comemadre] arrives like a shockwave.’ * Los Angeles Review of Books *
‘Larraquy has written a perfect novel: spare, urgent, funny, original and infused with wonderfully subtle grace.’ * Elisa Albert, author of After Birth *
‘Shuttling between B-movie horror and exceedingly dark comedy, the novel is somehow both genuinely scary and genuinely funny, sometimes on the same page—a wickedly entertaining ride.’ * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *
‘The mind-body divide becomes deliciously literal in Comemadre, Argentinian writer Roque Larraquy’s grotesque novel of art, lust, and ego…Layered without growing dense, the book is crisply comic, scenes punctuated like punchlines. That it all happens within a mere 130 pages is a sort of magic trick – the dizzying kind where a body gets sawed in half.’ * A.V Club, Best Books of 2018 *
‘Slyly funny and viscerally affecting, in a fluid translation by Heather Cleary, Comemadre is the medicine-meets-art horror story of my dreams.’ * Huffington Post, Best Books of 2018 *
‘[Comemadre] spins old unreliable narrator techniques into a freshly comic and grotesque examination of the various ways that we try to justify the unjustifiable.’ * Barrelhouse *
‘Blackly comic…Gifted with a crystal-clear translation from Heather Cleary, Argentinian writer Roque Larraquy…dispens[es] more than enough absurdist humour to balance out the disturbing content.’ * Big Issue *
‘Larraquy’s plot elements are held together so convincingly and his characters are so wicked… Comemadre should be devoured in all its revolting brilliance.’ * Otago Daily Times *

Roque Larraquy is an Argentinian writer, screenwriter, professor of narrative and audiovisual design, and the author of two books, La comemadre and Informe sobre ectoplasma animal. Comemadre is his first book published in English.

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