Saturn Station

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An inquiry into the nature of time, the political dimension of the grotesque, and eroticism as an antidote to anxiety.

‘Her discourse is poetic and deeply political. And from that almost oracular place, with a veiled sense of humour, she exposes the complexities that make us more human.’ Adriana Bertorelli, El Cultural, El Mundo.

‘The most unusual and original narrator in contemporary Argentine literature, fierce, radical and comical in her exploration of family miseries.’ Silvina Friera, Página 12.

Fernanda GARCIA LAO

CANDAYA, 2025, 144 p. LITERARY FICTION, Spanish (Argentina)

Two siblings (a man and a woman) travel by car after burying their eldest brother. A cat, the only thing they have left of their dead brother, escapes at a service station. Following its trail, they arrive at a hotel with a Chinese name and impossible architecture, where temporal dimensions are subverted and where UFO sightings, sexual slavery, corruption and lies coexist on the same plane: a kind of terrifying model of the strange and the world, in which normality has no place.

In Estación Saturno, with the sharp prose, painful humour and powerful and disturbing imagery that characterise Fernanda García Lao, all the obsessions of the highly original literary universe of this indispensable writer of contemporary Latin American literature are condensed: dark family legacies, suicidal lineages and the spectre of madness, the confusion of identities and the theme of the double, the investigation of the elusive nature of time, the political dimension of the grotesque and eroticism as an antidote to anguish.

Original Title
Estación saturno

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