Julia Armfield

Miri y Leah son jóvenes y están enamoradas y tienen un matrimonio lleno de felices complicidades. Hasta que Leah, bióloga marina de profesión, se embarca hacia el misterioso fondo del mar en una expedicion que debia durar solo tres semanas pero que se extiende por varios meses. Cuando Leah por fin regresa a la superficie y a su casa, Miri se da cuenta de que recuperar a la mujer que ama no significa recuperar la vida que compartian. Leah no esta bien: come apenas, anda perdida en sus pensamientos y por la noche deja correr el agua de los grifos del baño. Algo de lo que vivio en el abismo esta ahora con ellas, en esa casa, transformando a Leah de un modo aterrador y separandola de Miri quizas irremediablemente. Con un dominio magistral del suspenso y una sensibilidad exquisita para la ternura, Julia Armfield entrelaza generos que parecen opuestos la novela de terror y la romantica para contar la historia entera de una intimidad compartida. Nuestras esposas bajo el mar, el debut novelistico de esta gran y jovencisima narradora inglesa, es un viaje conmovedor hacia las profundidades del oceano y de una relacion amorosa.

Ha llovido tanto que el mundo cambió de forma. Tres hermanas distanciadas acaban de perder a su padre, un arquitecto ilustre que inventó una nueva manera de construir, adaptada al colapso ambiental. Las tres mujeres reaccionan de un modo distinto a la muerte del padre. Ninguna tenia una buena relacion con el y el fragil vinculo entre ellas esta al limite.Entre secretos y tormentas emocionales, cada una enfrentara su propio derrumbe. Mientras tanto, crece la sospecha de que algo mas oscuro y mas antiguo esta en juego: una herencia inquietante y un destino que no pidieron ocasionan una crisis familiar. Esta novela, que reinterpreta en clave gotica y desde una mirada queer la tragedia shakespeariana deEl rey Lear, desmenuza con gran agudeza psicologica los conflictos entre tres hermanas mientras imagina, enuna ciudad asolada por inundaciones, un fin del mundo que se parece demasiado a la realidad de hoy. Julia Armfield aborda, desde la ternura y el extrañamiento, temas como el apego, el duelo, la lealtad y las contradicciones de la herencia familiar. Misteriosa y magnetica, con un sentido del humor tan dramatico como sutil,Ritos privados es una historia sobre el amor, las ataduras de los vinculos y las fuerzas qu moldean lo que amamos.

Los nueve cuentos que integran este brillante debut literario son únicos en su especie, como cada una de sus protagonistas: niñas, adolescentes y jóvenes -terribles, entrañables- que aceptan la transformación y lo monstruoso con la misma alegre naturalidad con que experimentan el amor, la soledad, la maternidad o el deseo. En El gran despertar, Julia Armfield practica con sensibilidad y maestría un realismo fantástico que juega con los géneros explorando los cuerpos que habitan sus mujeres. Motivos clásicos del terror, la ciencia ficción, el fantasy y la mitología se funden con el feminismo y la cotidianidad para dar lugar a algo enteramente nuevo.

Miri y Leah son jóvenes y están enamoradas y tienen un matrimonio lleno de felices complicidades. Hasta que Leah, bióloga marina de profesión, se embarca hacia el misterioso fondo del mar en una expedicion que debia durar solo tres semanas pero que se extiende por varios meses. Cuando Leah por fin regresa a la superficie y a su casa, Miri se da cuenta de que recuperar a la mujer que ama no significa recuperar la vida que compartian. Leah no esta bien: come apenas, anda perdida en sus pensamientos y por la noche deja correr el agua de los grifos del baño. Algo de lo que vivio en el abismo esta ahora con ellas, en esa casa, transformando a Leah de un modo aterrador y separandola de Miri quizas irremediablemente.Con un dominio magistral del suspenso y una sensibilidad exquisita para la ternura, Julia Armfield entrelaza generos que parecen opuestos la novela de terror y la romantica para contar la historia entera de una intimidad compartida. Nuestras esposas bajo el mar, el debut novelistico de esta gran y jovencisima narradora inglesa, es un viaje conmovedor hacia las profundidades del oceano y de una relacion amorosa.

A gothic fairy tale, sublime in its creepiness - Florence WelchOur Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel Julia Armfiled, the critically acclaimed author of Salt Slow. Its a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep, deep sea.Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home.To have the woman she loves back should mean a return to normal life, but Miri can feel Leah slipping from her grasp. Memories of what they had before the jokes they shared, the films they watched, all the small things that made Leah hers only remind Miri of what she stands to lose. Living in the same space but suddenly separate, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had might be gone.

Wickedly clever prose and a sense of humour that seems to loom up like a character in itself' - M John Harrison, GuardianIn her brilliantly inventive and haunting debut collection of stories, Julia Armfield explores the body, mapping the skin and bones of her characters through their experiences of isolation, obsession, love and revenge. Teenagers develop ungodly appetites, a city becomes insomniac overnight, and bodies are diligently picked apart to make up better ones. The mundane worlds of schools and sleepy sea-side towns are invaded and transformed, creating a landscape which is constantly shifting to hold on to its inhabitants.

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Après une mission dans un sous-marin Leah revient étrangement changée. Un roman damour et de mystères au succès viral.Après une mission en haute mer dans un sous-marin, Leah, biologiste, retrouve en

In her brilliantly inventive and haunting debut collection of stories, Julia Armfield explores the body, mapping the skin and bones of her characters through their experiences of isolation, obsession, love and revenge.Wickedly clever prose and a sense of humour that seems to loom up like a character in itself M John Harrison, GuardianTeenagers develop ungodly appetites, a city becomes insomniac overnight, and bodies are diligently picked apart to make up better ones. The mundane worlds of schools and sleepy sea-side towns are invaded and transformed, creating a landscape which is constantly shifting to hold on to its inhabitants.Blurring the mythic and the gothic with the everyday, Salt Slow considers characters in motion turning away, turning back or simply turning into something new entirely.Winner of The White Review Short Story Prize, Armfield is a writer of sharp, lyrical prose and tilting dark humour.Salt Slow is exemplary. A distinct new gothic, melancholy, powerful and poised. China Mieville, author of The City & The CityThe stories in this collection look at womens bodies and their experiences in society with an eerie, otherworldly lense . . . For fans of Carmen Maria Machado, Sophie Mackintosh and Megan Hunter Elle

Brilliantly audacious GUARDIAN Stunning DAZED Her prose sparkles ELIZA CLARK Hauntingly good iNEWS A must read GLAMOURFrom the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea a haunting heart wrenching novel of three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world There s no way to bury a body in earth which is floodedIt s been raining for a long time now for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves Old places have been lost Arcane rituals and religions have crept back into practice Sisters Isla Irene and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their estranged father dies A famous architect revered for making the new world navigable he had long cut himself off from public life They find themselves uncertain of how to grieve his passing when everything around them seems to be ending anyway As the sisters come together to clear the grand glass house that is the pinnacle of his legacy they begin to sense that the magnetic influence of their father lives on through it Something sinister seems to be unfolding something related to their mother s long ago disappearance and the strangers who have always been unusually interested in their lives Soon it becomes clear that the sisters have been chosen for a very particular purpose one

Brilliantly audacious GUARDIANStunning DAZED Her prose sparkles ELIZA CLARK Hauntingly good iNEWS A must read GLAMOUROne of my favourite novels JEFF VANDERMEER From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting, heart wrenching novel of three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world.Theres no way to bury a body in earth which is flooded Its been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves. Old places have been lost. Arcane rituals and religions have crept back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their estranged father dies. A famous architect revered for making the new world navigable, he had long cut himself off from public life. They find themselves uncertain of how to grieve his passing when everything around them seems to be ending anyway. As the sisters come together to clear the grand glass house that is the pinnacle of his legacy, they begin to sense that the magnetic influence of their father lives on through it. Something sinister seems to be unfolding, something related to their mothers long-ago disappearance and the strangers who have always been unusually interested in their lives. Soon, it becomes clear that the sisters have been chosen for a very particular purpose, one with shattering implications for their family and their imperilled world. A Book of the Year in the Guardian and DazedArmfield writes so gracefully THE TIMESEvocative yet grounded OBSERVERA chilling vision of a future capital that Ive found impossible to shake INEWS Ballard-ian in apocalyptic scope Deeply, passionately, messily human PAUL TREMBLAY A signature cocktail of deadpan wit and staggering beauty ALICE SLATER Every page guillotines you with its wisdom TOM BENN Longlisted for the 2024 Climate Fiction Prize

Winner of the Polari PrizeShortlisted for the Gordon Bowker Volcano PrizeA gothic fairy tale, sublime in its creepiness Florence WelchOur Wives Under The Sea is the haunting novel from Julia Armfield, the critically acclaimed author of Salt Slow. Its a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep, deep sea.Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. But it soon becomes clear that Leah may have come back wrong. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home.Memories of what they had before the jokes they shared, the films they watched, all the small things that made Leah hers only remind Miri of what she stands to lose. Living in the same space but suddenly separate, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had might be gone.A wonderful novel, deeply romantic and fabulously strange Sarah Waters, author of FingersmithPart bruisingly tender love story, part nerve-clanging submarine thriller The Times

Llueve tanto hace años que el mundo cambió de forma. Tres hermanas distanciadas acaban de perder a su padre, un arquitecto ilustre que inventó una nueva manera de construir, adaptada al colapso ambiental. Las tres mujeres reaccionan de un modo distinto a la muerte del padre. Ninguna tenia una buena relacion con el y el fragil vinculo entre ellas esta al limite. Entre secretos y tormentas emocionales, cada una enfrentara su propio derrumbe. Mientras tanto, crece la sospecha de que algo mas oscuro mas antiguo y terrorifico esta en juego: algo que vivieron pero que casi no recuerdan. Esta novela, que reinterpreta en clave siniestra y desde una mirada queer El rey Lear de Shakespeare, desmenuza con gran intuicion psicologica los conflictos entre hermanas mientras imagina, en una ciudad azotada por inundaciones, un fin del mundo que se parece demasiado a la realidad de hoy.En Ritos privados, Julia Armfield combina con audacia y maestria la novela sentimental con la ciencia ficcion y el terror y se confirma como una de las voces mas cautivantes de la literatura inglesa.

Named as book to look out for in 2022 by Guardian, i-D, Autostraddle, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, Stylist and DAZED.Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home.To have the woman she loves back should mean a return to normal life, but Miri can feel Leah slipping from her grasp. Memories of what they had before - the jokes they shared, the films they watched, all the small things that made Leah hers - only remind Miri of what she stands to lose. Living in the same space but suddenly separate, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had might be gone.Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel from the critically acclaimed author of salt slow. It's a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep, deep sea.