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Yuri Herrera stands out with his first book, Works of the Kingdom, in which, through the eyes of a composer, he unfolds before the reader a panorama of the palace life of a drug trafficking cartel. Lobo, protagonist and narrator of the novel, is a marginalized being since his birth. He has no education, but he has the talent to turn notable events into epic songs, that is why he is the Artist. One afternoon he meets the man who will transform his life... Thus, reconstructing the inner world of the cartel with a popular language not devoid of lyricism, a sign of his excellent ear, and with a tone that sometimes takes on the registers of a fable. Children and others of Renaissance tragedy, the Artist's words take us into a castle where happiness seems to reign, but hidden intrigues spread. (Eduardo Antonio Parra, Letras Libres)

Never Did the Fire unfolds in the humdrum of everyday working class existence, making the afterlife of an agitator that of anyone living next door. For one old couple, brought together years ago in an underground cell, the revolution has ended in a small apartment, a grinding job caring for the bodies of the unwell well-to-do, and all the aches and pains that go with a long life and a long marriage. Untethered from the political action that defined them, and mourning the loss of their child, their bonds dissolve, but the consequences of their former life, and their dependence on each other, won't let them go.A literary icon in Chile and a major figure in the anti-Pinochet resistance, Diamela Eltit is at the height of her powers in this novel of breakdowns. Never Did the Fire evokes the charged air of Chile's violent past, and the burdens it carries into the present-day, when the structures we built, and the ones we succumbed to, no longer offer us any comfort or prospect of salvation.