Highblood

Claudia Amador (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2027
Manilla Press (Verlag)
978-1-78658-797-8 (ISBN)

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Julieta Vanterroso is the youngest daughter of a powerful, bloodthirsty family on Colombia's Caribbean coast with a dynasty of distilling the finest blood in the land into a widely consumed cocktail called Sanguina.

When Julieta is born feral and with an appetite for blood, her grandmother-- the family's storied matriarch Julia Vanterroso--hires Enriqueta, a witch from a nearby village who appears to tame Julieta with her supernatural powers.

But though Julieta is trained by the Vanterroso clan in the rituals of high society and promised in marriage to the son of another local elite, her monstrous hunger still lurks beneath the surface. When her beloved Enriqueta dies, Julieta steals a book on forbidden magic from her grandmother's private library and uses it to summon Mamá Codex, an ancestral spirit who urges her to disrupt her family's legacy from within by destroying her own grandmother . . .

Winner of the 2024 Elisa Mújica Narrative Prize, HIGHBLOOD blends the pagan, tropical, festive folklore of Barranquilla's carnival and Afro Caribbean traditions with a chilling gothic horror plot filled with vampires, ghosts, rituals, and death. A striking example of the imaginative and creative power of emerging Colombian literature and its constant ability to seduce and surprise.

Claudia Amador (Barranquilla, 1998) is a professional in Literary Studies from the University of Bucaramanga. Her short stories have been published in Spain, Uruguay and Colombia, in anthologies such as Contaminacion futura Vol. 10, Fisura: Colombian anthology of strange fiction, Las ciclistas: fantastic anthology of Colombian authors and five versions of the anthology of short stories of the Mirabilia Science Fiction Contest. She was the winner of the XV International Short Story Contest Ciudad de Pupiales 2020 and the Relata 2022 contest. In 2023 she launched MACRORED, her first book of science fiction stories thanks to the Publication Grant for unpublished work of the National Stimulus Program of the Ministry of Culture. In 2024 she was the winner of the Elisa Mújica National Narrative Prize with HIGHBLOOD.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.1.2027
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
	Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Horror
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10	1-78658-797-1 / 1786587971
ISBN-13	978-1-78658-797-8 / 9781786587978
Zustand	Neuware