Brujas

Brujas

Novela , 2020

Alfaguara

Páginas 264

La esperada y más ambiciosa novela de Brenda Lozano, una de las voces más sobresalientes de la nueva generación de escritoras latinoamericanas

Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year
Time Best Book of the Month
World Literature Today Notable Book
Named a Most Anticipated Book by 
Bustle, NYLON, Literary Hub, and The Millions

Una joven periodista llamada Zoe viaja desde Ciudad de México hasta la lejana zona de San Felipe para escribir un reportaje sobre Feliciana, una anciana curandera cuyas artes sanadoras atraen a escritores, cineastas y millonarios del mundo entero. Es, sin quererlo, la curandera más legendaria de todo México, pero a Feliciana no le interesan la fama ni el dinero. Para contar su historia quiere antes conocer también la de Zoe.

Dos mujeres. Dos voces. Dos vidas. El México ancestral, rural y mágico, y el México actual, urbano y acelerado se toman de la mano en esta extraordinaria novela que habla con suma delicadeza de la identidad femenina y de cómo las mujeres se conocen entre sí para conocerse mejor ellas mismas, sanar heridas y encontrar el propio camino.

"En Brujas, Brenda Lozano invoca al lenguaje que es territorio de lo desconocido, al que es puente entre mundos, al que teje vínculos, al lenguaje como sitio de revelación." Gabriela Jauregui

Brujas busca otras energías, que no tienen que ver con lo concreto real. Se mueve ahí todo el tiempo. Son voces super bonitas e inolvidables.” Julieta Venegas

“Il talento di Brenda Lozano è in grado di tramutare la parola in rito, la scrittura per mezzo di un incantesimo permea sotto pelle disegnando sentieri e rivelazioni.” Emiliano Reali, Huff Post Italia

“Lozano does a wonderful job distinguishing the disparate characters and their fluid identities. [...] Powerful and complex, this marks a new turn from an intriguing writer.” Publishers Weekly

“A story of the world’s repeated failure to control feminine power and the sheer magic of language itself. An enthralling, passionate story about secrets both holy and profane.” Catherine Lacey, author of Pew and Nobody Is Ever Missing

"A fascinating immersion into a little-known world, written with tenderness and humanity." Kirkus Reviews A best fiction book of the year 2022

"The biggest success of Witches is the way she weaves together two distinct voices … Though the book chronicles violence against women and those who present as women, it highlights, in both rural and urban communities, an atmosphere of freedom and mobility that is a pleasure to read about.” Rachel Nolan, New York Times Book Review

 “Witches is about magic, healing, and how your experiences affect they way you process trauma. Lozano is a keen observer who brings two very different worlds to the page with vibrant passages and a lot of heart.” Locus Magazine

"Potent and intriguing . . . The women's stories dovetail, with echoing experiences of sisterhood, motherhood, purpose, and gendered violence. These elegant streams of consciousness ripple with tantalizing figurative language, eddying together as they flow into one refreshing river of a novel . . . It is heartbreak that this novel seeks to guide readers beyond, becoming itself a healing, meditative space to confront the cruelties of the world." Dave Wheeler, Shelf Awareness

“This book is so smart, so beautiful and I want to make sure it gets its flowers. ” MJ, WBEZ Chicago The Best Books of 2002

“Readers of Fernanda Melchor’s form-busting, psychedelic takes on recent South American history won’t want to miss Brenda Lozano’s Witches . . . Heather Cleary fluidly translates Lozano’s spiky narrative, immersing readers in its horrors without obscuring its beauties.” Chicago Review of Books

“One of the most striking voices of a new generation of Latin American writers.” Pierce Alquist, Book Riot

“Who needs a standard plot when you can write as exquisitely as Brenda Lozano?... The women reveal themselves, through stories of mothers, daughters, sisters, lovers—men are essential but peripheral, often dangerous—in a rhythm that enchants and floats the story forward, confirming the capacity of words to cast a powerful spell.” Cat Auer, The A.V. Club