El príncipe Melocotón

Story. Edelvives 2011. 69 pages

Ages 8 and up

Once upon a time a baby boy was magically born by a peach tree growing in a palace garden.

This miracle had been brought about by the lamentations of a shoemaker who could not have her own child. On seeing the child, the king and queen decided to take the child in since they did not have any children themselves and the peach tree was in their garden. From then on the little prince lived in the palace. Years later, the king and queen had a little girl. In time the two children fell in love and this the monarchs could not tolerate. Because theirs was a forbidden love, the prince and princess were forced to go through a series of terrible ordeals before they could return triumphant to the palace.

Published by:  Spanish worldwide Edelvives.

Boris Orbis y la Vieja de la Calle 24

Story. Editorial Sudamericana,  2011. 77 pages

Ages: 8 and up

In the city’s darkest, most twisted street, there lived a very, very, very evil old woman. She was so evil that she kept her nephew Boris Orbis locked up in the house. The old woman would make him cook, sweep, clean all in exchange for a clove of garlic and a crust of bread!

Boris Orbis was 13 and had carrot-red hair. One of the things he most liked to do was to play the accordion. One day, music and the wish to meet Margarita Verano made him take a great decision: to flee from the Old Woman and the horrible Calle 24. Now that the decision was taken, the question remained how to go about it?

Published by: Spanish worldwide Editorial Sudamericana

Siempre nos quedará París, Patricia Suárez

Novela Inédita

Una noche en la víspera de Navidad, Ámbar –una joven escritora– recibe un llamado desde un hospital. Un hombre joven que perdió la memoria tenía entre sus pertenencias el teléfono de ella. Le piden que concurra al hospital a buscarlo; Ámbar no lo conoce, pero al fin decide solidarizarse con él y llevarlo a su casa. El hombre es un extranjero que casi no dice palabra: Ámbar piensa que es ruso. El extranjero le trae no pocos problemas en la casa, especialmente con Tony, su amante.

Tony, es el director del suplemento literario adonde Ámbar trabaja y escritor más o menos célebre. El amantazgo entre Tony y Ambar está en franca decadencia: él siente que se debe a una falta de erotismo y ella a una falta de amor. En una serie de malos entendidos, el extranjero se escapa y comienza a dar vueltas por la ciudad. Se encuentra con el muchacho que pasea perros, con el dueño de un carrusel, con una ex amante norteamericana, pasa por sacristán en una iglesia y acaba  haciendo de  mariachi en un restaurante. En suma, en cada sitio que pasa, adquiere una personalidad distinta y se adapta a ella sin mayores consecuencias.

Luego de la Navidad, Ámbar coincide en el mismo restaurante  donde trabaja el extranjero y ya no lo reconoce. Tony está internado por abusar del Viagra.

Con un ritmo vertiginoso y un tono hilarante, la trama de esta historia se completa con personajes secundarios que parecen salidos de un cuadro del Bosco: Jesús Bueno, el ayudante de Tony; el Gordo Rodríguez, un periodista grosero pero filólogo del sánscrito;  Olinda Molondrón, la primera esposa de Tony encerrada en un psiquiátrico…

Lucy

Novel. Chick Lit. Plaza & Janés 2010.

Young Lucy speeds off to Italy to look for her husband, who has run away with another woman. When she finds him he tells her everything is over between them. Full of spite, Lucy has a romance with an Italian man she meets at the airport. Once in Buenos Aires they sleep together in Lucy’s house. At daybreak the stranger disappears and Lucy, who thinks he has left to buy croissants, is woken up by three knocks on the door by the Police to find out that the Italian is a Mafioso who has landed in Argentina with the assignment to murder someone. Lucy is regarded as his accomplice and is taken to the police station.

Following this, the plot focuses on Lucy’s experience in prison, where she is surrounded by three policemen that are like a host of miracles: the inspector, who suffers from migraines and hallucinations; García, a gluttonous officer; and Rolfo, a policeman who is addicted to disco-music. In addition, the Police request the help of a lawyer, Andrés Costa, an extremely depressive man…

In a bitterly humorous tone, Lucy draws us into the vicissitudes of a woman who always seems to be getting into trouble despite her endeavours to avoid it.

“This novel allows Patricia Suárez to show two of her best resources: humour and her ability to deal with dialogues”. Claudia Piñero

 

Published by: Spanish worldwide Plaza & Janés, Random House Mondadori

Álbum de Polaroids

La Fábrica Editorial, Biblioteca BlowUp Novelas Cortas (Short novels BlowUp Library) Spain, 2008. 95 pages.

This short novel is about a man, Esteban Odessky, who is in his late thirties and feels terribly oppressed by his marriage, incapable of breaking up with his wife. He therefore decides to commit suicide as the only means to put an end to his relationship. However, once in the water, the fishermen throw a man overboard because they say he brings bad luck. Still alive, the man bumps into Esteban, and they both save their lives. This is the turning point in Esteban’s story, the beginning of his odyssey: he will escape to a big city to start a new life, he will come across fanciful and absurd characters. On the other hand, the novel returns to Leda, Esteban’s wife: her reactions once she acknowledges she has been abandoned, how she and her father hire a detective to find Esteban…

Undoubtedly this novel was written with deep love for authors like John Updike, Margaret Atwood and other writers who regard “the journey” as the starting point for a new life.

Polaroid photos often display a somewhat strange and hasty version of reality, of its colours and characters. In this short novel, Patricia Suarez’s characters and set-ups are precisely like this: they are all sort of “out of place”, avert from conventional colours; being each and every one of them absorbed in the task of “trying to rub back life into their feet”.

Published by: Spanish worldwide La Fábrica

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