Monsters Under the Rain

"Most of the stories in Larissa Rú's Monsters Under the Rain address terror in its many forms: from an approach to the genre from a more realistic perspective such as "El soplón," where we can see a monstrous transformation of the social or a horrorization of the familiar, to "La cabeza verde" and "Cuencas (los ojos de Saturno)," where we are part of a supernatural phenomenon personified in monstrous entities that seem to propose chilling solutions to the protagonists' problems. In addition, people who delve into this book will find rewritings of some fairy tales, such is the case of "El cuarto de los conejos," "Los cerdos de la mansión Akerman" and "Sílfide," where the author uses the realm of fantasy to show the cruelty of family or romantic relationships.
The book closes with the story "Vanidades," which explores creepypasta horror, and can also be read as an allegory of the horizon of expectations that society imposes on women's bodies. In summary, this book allows the Costa Rican public to access literature made in our territory that is related to what authors such as Mariana Enríquez or Giovanna Rivero are producing in the field of Latin American speculative fiction." (LUCÍA LEANDRO HERNÁNDEZ)

LARISSA RÚ (San José, 1998)
Her work Cómo sobrevivir a una tormenta extranjera (2020) won the Aquileo J. Echeverría National Novel Prize 2020. She complemented her university studies in Art History at the Università Ca'Foscari in Venice, Italy. Her areas of interest include pre-Columbian art, Japanese art, and gender studies. In 2021 she published Plenilunio, a young adult fantasy novel. This book, Monstruos bajo la lluvia, won the Aquileo J. Echeverría National Short Story Prize 2022.

Author: Larissa Rú
Publisher: Encino Ediciones
Published: 03/01/2022
Pages: 170
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.39d
ISBN13: 9789930581339
ISBN10: 9930581332
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Horror | General

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