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After years away, Lucas returns uninvited to the home he was expelled from as a child. The garden has been conquered by weeds, which blanket his mother’s beloved flowerbeds and his father’s grave alike.
A lot has changed since Eloy and Felisberto were invited into the family home to work for Lucas’s father, long ago. The two hulking strangers have brought the land and everyone on it under their control—and removed nuisances like Lucas. Now everything rots.
Lucas, a hardened young man, turns to a world that thrives in dirt and darkness: the world of insects. In raw, lyrical prose, García Freire portrays a world brought low by human greed, while hinting at glimmers of hope in the unlikeliest places.
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“This World Does Not Belong to Us leads the readers into the deepest, darkest regions of human existence, where what is most infected and rotten becomes beautiful and liberating.”
— Toda Literatura
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“Disquieting and visceral…García Freire unearths a brilliant sense of the miraculous from the swarming and putrid subject matter. The result is beautifully macabre.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review) -
“One of the debut novels that most stood out this year.”
— New York Times -
“Natalia García Freire is unbelievably young to have written a first work of such talent.”
— Relatos en construcción -
“A maturity that leaves you breathless. This great writer forces us to lie down on the earth and be touched by insects, plants, and matter.”
— Radio Nacional España
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