MAMMALIA

A science fiction thriller set in a future of its own in the state plans the pregnancy and birth of the children, in a context of low fertility worldwide.

During a holiday in the south of France, when Cora is eight years old, she gets lost on a cycling trip. When a storm breaks out, she seeks shelter in a cave where she finds some strangely familiar paintings that awaken hidden memories. This sets in motion an obsessive search for his origins. This is the trigger for a labyrinthine story, a thriller that combines poetics and reflection, in which Cora will face an intimate puzzle where the pieces of the past and the present will fit together until her identity is revealed. Elisenda Solsona takes us deep into a mystery that has as its backdrop the social plague of fertility problems and the maternal relationships that result. Mammalia is a novel about the devastating consequences of the past, and how family secrets can become curses. Elisenda Solsona (Olesa de Montserrat, 1984) is a writer and a school teacher. She has a degree in Humanities from the Pompeu Fabra University and in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Barcelona. She has published Cirurgies (Voliana Edicions, 2016) and Satèl·lits (Males Herbes, 2019), which won the Imperdibles 2020 Award for best fantasy book in Catalan and the Ictineu 2020 Award for best collection and best short story in Catalan. She has participated in the anthology Autòctones (Comanegra, 2023) and in the collection of short stories The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories (Valancourt, 2020) with the story 'Mechanisms' (translation by Mara Faye Lethem, included in Satèl·lits).