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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Maren Wiederhold
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Horror & supernatural fiction

THE SKY OVER THE JUNGLE / EL CIELO DE LA SELVA

Elaine Vilar Madruga

A Caribbean horror story about motherhood and human sacrifices

The jungle is a hungry god. One that allows you to live in its domain but demands the highest of prices in return. Its voracity never ends and those who live under its control must surrender their children, a bloody tribute. In a ruthless world of guerrilleros, narcos and prostitutes, mothers are forced to flee into the jungle. There, the only way to survive is to raise their own children as a sacrifice in an endless system of offering and retribution. The jungle becomes an otherworldly space where the fantastic and the savage mixes with madness and crumbling civilization. A violent yet fascinating fable, a provocative multivocal novel about motherhood and survival. Elaine Vilar Madruga (Havana, 1989) is already one of the latest and most powerful voices to be reckoned with in the new boom of Latin American literature. Throughout her works, this prolific author has developed a very particular universe as novelist, poet and playwright in books published in Cuba, Spain, United States, Canada, France, Italy and all around Latin America. Professor of creative writing and journalist, her books have been awarded with numerous international recognitions including Cálamo Award for Best Book of the Year (Spain), the Calendar Award (Cuba) or the "Escritura de las diferencias" International Award (Italy).

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Book Published 2023-03-15 by Lava Editorial

Comments

The work of several young Latin American authors, in addition to their own quality and value, also helps us to discover many of the realities experienced across the continent. Violence appears to be a leitmotiv, like it shows El cielo de la selva, by Cuban Elaine Vilar Madruga, in which marginality coexists with a form of gothic horror in a Caribbean version.

Elaine Vilar Madruga's writing makes the jungle that lives in us - voracious, hungry god - make us tremble with fear and wonder. The result is a novel overflowing with talent, intelligence and terror. You have to read it

I need everyone to read this book and meet Elaine Vilar Madruga.

A standing ovation for El cielo de la selva. It will be difficult to find a better book than this one this year. Vilar is an author with both personality and authority.

You were right. I don't think I'll ever read anything like it.

This shocking novel is the blood that we cannot stop seeing, a story about the voracity of violence, motherhood and death in the jungle, about what makes us human and what makes us cruel. Elaine Vilar Madruga is a powerful, elegant and daring voice. I want to read everything she writes.

shortlisted for the Finestres Award

Vilar Madruga grabs the reader from page one and doesn´t let go until the very end.

NoLlegiu Award 2023 as Best Book of the Year in Spanish Fiction category Festival 42 Award for Best Novel of the Year

Elaine uses language at will, her books don´t ask permission and know no shame.

The novel creates a distressing and surprising microcosm, emerging as one of the best books of the year. Elegant and exquisitely narrated.

Latin America: Elefanta Editorial ; Brazil: Editora Instante ; France: Éditions de l'Observatoire ; English: HarperVia/Borough Press