Eartheater: A Novel

"This book has many interesting things that we could talk about, and not just in terms of the style of writing, but also in relation to one of its main themes: femicide. In Argentina, a woman disappears or is murdered every single day, so femicide is a very big problem. This book is about a young girl who lives in poverty on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Here, people work in badly-paid jobs—day jobs, nothing permanent. It is hard to survive. She lives with his brother. Their mother had been killed. Through parapsychology, the protagonist learns that if she eats the earth or soil where a woman was standing during her last minute of being alive, she can see where the body is buried. It is like a gift. She is clairvoyant. “This is a very representative group of the best writers producing new literature” The novel takes a very important issue that is relevant not just for Argentina but also for many parts of the world, namely violence against women. A kind of violence ignored or belittled by some current governments or presidents. Some even claim that it is the same to kill a man or a woman. It is not the same. Reyes takes a very important matter and looks at it in a very creative way. In the novel, there are young characters, teenagers, who talk as teenagers talk. So it’s a book that many young people love for that reason. Sadly, it was banned in Argentina, or rather, people tried to ban it, but many writers came together to protest against that. So for me, it is a very important to book to read, and also The Adventures of China Iron which is our next book."