Name: Highblood: A Novel
SKU: 68340410
Price: 31.20 EUR
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Author: Claudia Amador
ISBN: 9781668242346

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Physical Book

Author

Claudia Amador

Publisher

Atria/Primero Sueno Press

Year

2027

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.27x13.97x1.28 cm

ISBN13

9781668242346

Highblood: A Novel

Claudia Amador (Author) · Atria/Primero Sueno Press · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Highblood: A Novel"

“They say that as a young pup she liked to bite. She ripped chunks of flesh from three servants and nearly bled one of them to death.”

In Barranquilla, Carnival belongs to the living, the dead, and the women who feed on both.

Julieta Vanterroso was born with fangs, a beautiful little monster in a family that knew exactly what to do with monsters. Her grandmother, Julia Vanterroso, has built an empire out of blood: the Sanguina factory, the Highblood Club, the old Carnival families, the politicians, the servants, the bodies that can be drained and paid and forgotten. In Barranquilla, the Vanterrosos do not hide what they are. They dress it in lace, teach it to dance, put it on a float, and call it tradition.

Now Julieta is meant to become Queen of Carnival. She must smile, dance, read the Bando, marry the man chosen for her, and step into the future her grandmother has prepared since the day she was born. But as Carnival approaches and the Vanterroso family begins to turn on itself, bodies appear where they shouldn’t, old rituals start to fail, and the women around Julieta grow hungry in ways even blood cannot satisfy.

By the time Carnival crowns its queen, Julieta will have to decide how much of herself she is willing to lose to become what her family has been waiting for.

Drawing from Afro-Caribbean spiritual traditions, Highblood transforms Barranquilla Carnival into a landscape of blood, spectacle, and ritual, where women inherit hunger like a family heirloom and survival depends on who is willing to devour whom first.

Claudia Amador

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Claudia Amador (Barranquilla, 1998) es profesional en Estudios Literarios de la Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga. Escritora, tallerista y librera. Sus cuentos han sido publicados en España, Uruguay y Colombia, en antologías como Contaminación futura Vol. 10, Fisura: antología colombiana de ficción extraña, Las ciclistas: antología fantástica de autoras colombianas y cinco versiones de la antología de cuentos del Concurso Mirabilia de Ciencia Ficción. Fue ganadora del xv Concurso Internacional de Cuento Ciudad de Pupiales 2020 y el concurso Relata 2022. En 2023 lanzó Macrored, su primer libro de relatos de ciencia ficción gracias a la Beca de Publicación de obra inédita del Programa Nacional de Estímulos del Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia. En 2024 fue ganadora del Premio Nacional de Narrativa Elisa Mújica con "Altasangre", su brillante primera novela.

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