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Book SynopsisIntroducing the Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi, You Glow in the Dark glimmers with an unearthly light and a nearly radioactive power
Trade Review"Liliana Colanzi won the International Ribera Del Duero Prize for
You Glow in the Dark, further evincing the tremendous talent of this Bolivian writer whose fiction has opened up new spaces in our literature of the strange and the fantastic." -- Latin American Literature Today
"Perhaps the best thing about the collection are the coincidences that thread through it . . . the luminosity of the book resides in these encounters and synchronicities, like the blue light that shines from the contaminated people in the last story, the blue of death, but also of a star or the bottom of the ocean." -- Rosamaría Durán - Otra Parte
"A rare excellence: a capacity to combine the ambiguity of poetry with the clarity of a revelation. " -- Carlos Pardo - El País
"Tinged with futuristic flourishes and set largely in the Bolivian Altiplano, these stories examine the aftermath of terrible trespasses, mostly only whispered about. The 'alien gaze' is a keen instrument for dissecting the human condition, and Colanzi employs it to great effect here." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"This slim story collection contains seven entries, each told in taut, sharp prose that will beguile, enthrall, and astound. … In 2017, Colanzi was named one of the 39 most promising Latin American writers under 39, and her talent and stature continue to grow." -- Diego Báez - Booklist
"A shimmering collection focused on the ruinous consequences of human folly… Taken together, these stories paint an arresting portrait of corruption, industrialization, the power of nature, and supernatural forces." -- Publishers Weekly (starred)
"In [Colanzi’s] tales, violence is something in the air or soil, something ready to take us over or occupy our lives at any moment." -- Chicago Review of Books
