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LA CABEZA DE MI PADRE

Alma Delia Murillo

La cabeza de mi padre is a transparent book, in which readers will accompany the journey to find this man with a mysterious destiny and, perhaps, we will catch glimpses of our own searches. A story written from the heart, from where only the road to the origin can be travelled. Confronted with loss, the author seeks to reconstruct the symbol of her missing father as a way of completing herself. From this premise she tells the story of her life: The main character grows up among eight siblings, a working mother and misery, and reflects with eyes wide open not only on her biography, but also on the history of a classist, racist and deeply divided country where women have the most to lose, especially fatherless women. Like a road trip, at the age of forty, she sets out on her quest with three of her siblings and her mother. As she narrates her decision to go and meet him and the journey that takes her from Mexico City to Michoacán, she intersperses passages from her life. Alma Delia Murillo is a Mexican writer, author of the bestselling novel La cabeza de mi padre (Alfaguara, 2022). She is also a regular collaborator in national newspapers such as Reforma, or magazines as The Washington Post or Milenio, among others. She is also a scriptwriter, who has participated as a creator and scriptwriter in several several audioseries for Amazon Audible and Amazon Music: 10 Mujeres (Wondery and Dudas Media) starring actresses such as Angélica Aragón, Yalitza Aparicio, Bárbara Mori and Mabel Cadena, Conversaciones prohibidas del confinamiento, starring Maya Zapata, El amor es un bono navideño, Ciudad de abajo (starring Alfonso Herrera), and Diario la libro. She debuted with the short stories Damas de Caza (Plaza y Valdés, 2011) and Cuentos de maldad (y uno que otro maldito) (Alfaguara, 2020), and then kept on writing the novels El niño que fuimos (Alfaguara, 2018) and Las noches habitadas (DeBolsillo, 2021).

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Book Published 2022-05-01 by Alfaguara/PRH

Comments

Dutch: Atlas Contact

In Mexican literature there are breezy, lucid, amusing, subversive voices that care for language, that illuminate; for me Alma Delia's voice is what brings all those voices together.

Ever since she started publishing, I discovered in Alma Delia Murillo the strength of her thoughtful and ironic memory. Her voice is a dagger that cuts mercilessly through empty formalities and knows how to laugh at the world and at herself.

Alma Delia Murillo weaves the story of her family. A tale of violence, misery, ingenuity, survival and blood; an odyssey to the depths of the heart of the author who has become one of the most talented voices in Mexican narrative today.

Alma Delia Murillo writes with intelligence and a playful irony. To read her is to always find a company that brings joy.

One of the most outstanding Mexican writers and essayists of recent years.

This is the best novel I have read in years. Demolishing, brutally passionate, savage and cultured, beautiful. I can't shake it off me.

This brave, emotional text, full of irony, is the resignification of many lives and their pasts - maybe this is why it's so stricking. La cabeza de mi padre is a book that comes out of the gut, and shifts the gaze to the other half, but above all it is the mark left by those fathers who never came back.

The gift of words. Alma Delia Murillo knows how to seduce, her prose hits a nerve that displace any intellectual pretensions.