Phantoms

A deeply intimate exploration of motherhood, memory and language, this book enters the mother-daughter relationship as a terrain of constant eruption: unstable and impossible to fully contain.

Rima grows under the luminous yet shattered shadow of Teté, a mother shaped by excess, ungovernable intensity and a relentless longing for freedom. A fractured bond unfolds between them, one that is held in love and absence. In this work, the past persists and memory expands even before birth.

With a voice that moves across confession and invention, autobiography and autofiction, the narrator confronts what cannot be named: the phantom smell that haunts her, the weight of inheritance, and writing becomes the only possible breath. The result is a hybrid text that embraces contradiction in tension without resolving it.

Featuring a refined translation by Jessica Powell, this edition also includes new sections not included in the original Spanish publication.