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Sonia Cunliffe, Enrique Planas and Zoila Vega Salvatierra with Jorge Malpartida

A salve against forgetting

Arequipa 2025, 

With its love of memory, literature can be a good remedy against forgetting. Zoila Vega Salvatierra reconstructs the history of Arequipa through the voice of six forgotten pianos in Cantan al hablar. Sonia Cunliffe traces a history of migrations, losses and grief in El tropiezo del sol, which tells the story of two women whose lives are brought together by two separate earthquakes. In El álbum de las cosas olvidadas, Enrique Planas explores the emotional links we have with the objects that time has left behind, and examines our own obsolescence. In convrsation with Jorge Malpartida.

LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available

Sonia Cunliffe, Enrique Planas and Zoila Vega Salvatierra with Jorge Malpartida