Álvaro Bisama and Rosa Chávez Yacila in conversation with Andrea Lerner

Every novel shows us a story and Oráculo, Álvaro Bisama (Chile) unfolds a whirlwind of interwoven stories, filtering through diverse realities: the historical, the horrific and the fantastic. A kind of labyrinthine book through whose plots his characters wander. The key to the stories collected in Las nerviosas by Rosa Chávez Yacila (Peru) is the transmission of an affliction inherited from generation to generation among the women of the same family; a nervous condition that is not only an illness, but an emotional and social burden transmitted through silence, fear, repression and the expectations imposed on women. They will talk to Andrea Lerner.