Solo Un Poco Aquí / Just Here for a While

Luego de su contundente debut, Azares del cuerpo, Mar a Ospina Pizano regresa con una novela que es animales y movimiento: una t ngara migratoria lucha con los desv os que imponen las luces de la ciudad y sus edificios, un puercoesp n hu rfano es alimentada con leche humana, dos perras se refugian juntas de sus abandonos y un cucarr n reci n salido de la tierra se extrav a. Estos seres vuelan, se acurrucan, se arrastran, gru en, lamen, olisquean, se trepan y buscan morada por estas p ginas de extraordinaria literatura. Ospina Pizano nos regala fogonazos de vida a trav s de aquellas criaturas que existen a plena vista sin ser vistas, pero que aqu (y siempre) son testigos de las heridas humanas.

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Winner of Premio Nacional de Novela 2024 (Colombia)

"Just Here for a While claims the sacred condition of these beings, whose suffering and curiosity for the world we choose not to witness. A book that peers out to regard the world from other spots and different timelines. This book is of a rare beauty and must not be put off." --Yuri Herrera

Winner of the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Award 2023.

After her outstanding debut novel, Variations on the Body, Maria Ospina Pizano returns with a novel that is both animals and movement: a migratory scarlet tanager struggles with forced detours caused by buildings and city lights, an orphaned porcupine is fed human milk, two dogs take refuge together after being abandoned, and a beetle that has just come out of the earth gets lost. These beings fly, cuddle, crawl, growl, lick, smell, climb, and look for a place to dwell within these pages of literature extraordinaire. Ospina Pizano gives us bursts of life through those creatures that exist unnoticed in plain sight, but that here (and always) witness human wounds.