The Landscape Is a Cry
Eduardo Ruiz Sosa’s most personal novel.
Migrants, North Mexican Desert and Border, contemporary social collapse, Struggle.
‘Eduardo Ruiz Sosa’s novels are ambitious and hypnotic, overflowing, rebellious.’
Nadal Suau, El Cultural, El Mundo
‘An amazing book. The work with language, the constant crossing of genres (from prose to verse to drama), the desedimentation of landscapes, its ethical relevance: all done with infinite mastery.’ Cristina Rivera Garza, Literal Magazine
CANDAYA, 2026, 398 p. LITERARY FICTION, Spanish (Mexico)
It all begins with a deportation. Al Baldor, who has been living on the Other Side for years, is expelled to the limbo of undocumented immigrants due to a tangled and absurd bureaucratic conflict. Forced to face the Origin he abandoned and return to the place where he was born, he crosses, along with three undocumented migrants, the devastated spaces of the desert and the Sierra Madre. After the death of Genízaro, one of their travelling companions, the group gets lost in a labyrinth of villages with foreign names, while struggling not to succumb to uprooting and disappearance.
In The Landscape is a Cry, the third novel by Culiacán writer Eduardo Ruiz Sosa, migration, the ghosts of the past and the future, a faltering identity, the story of a man who tried to found twenty-three gringo cities called Paris, the madness of spaces transformed by time and ambition, factories on the border, cemeteries, ruins, Canadian mining companies that destroy everything in their path, the violence of labour and drug trafficking, the contagious fervour of creation, and attempts to rebuild what remains of us after the collapse of the collective and the intimate.
Original Title
El paisaje es un grito
Territory of representation
World Wide
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