Gabriela Jauregui

The life of  a couple portrayed through a tense and caustic exploration of desire and loyalty

A couple flees the city to set up home on a small farm, faraway from everything and everyone. She has shaken off her addictions. He is an artist. Neither of them knows anything about rural life so they have to learn to grow crops and care for the animals. But just when everything seems to be falling into place, two discordant figures disturb their life on the farm. First, a fox that roams the area and threatens the henhouse. And second, a young woman who appears at the house expecting to find her uncle, the previous owner.

The couple take in the woman on that same night, unaware that her arrival is about to unleash a whirlwind of desire and attraction that will spiral out of control.

“The cabin novel is already an essential subgenre for understanding contemporary fiction, and Jáuregui’s offers intriguing variations.” Begoña Gómez-Urzáiz, La Vanguardia

"There is something of a fable about this novel: Zorra is a sharp reflection of desire tamed by habit, of a couple who seem to have resigned themselves to the cruelty of routine until the wild re-emerges. Within its pages, the tension and sensuality of the forest, of animality, of humanity, can be felt in the shifting between holding one’s breath and gasping for air." Aura García-Junco

"Zorra is a book written in a state of grace. Contained and precise, it has just enough to make you explode inside, like a drug or a surge of desire. With this novel, Gabriela Jauregui has reached a new place in her work. She does not emerge unscathed from that space." Daniel Saldaña París

"Where nature and culture come together, dance, and fight, Gabriela Jauregui's literature flourishes. There is always something animal in the Mexican writer's books, something also always human. […] With the same naturalness with which she navigates that friction between the natural and the human, Gabriela Jauregui delves into the gray areas of intimacy and desire." Elena San José, El País