Ediciones B
El Valle de Los Mamuts / Valley of the Mammoths
El Valle de Los Mamuts / Valley of the Mammoths
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Does freedom mean anything if the world is about to end?
Which stories are worth telling when extinction looms?
In the year 2042, bees have disappeared from the planet and technology has brought back Ice Age creatures like the mammoth. Besieged by pandemics and ominous scientific advances, humanity divides into two bands. Silvestre and Javier live at opposite extremes: for the former, an acclaimed movie director, the climate emergency is an inevitable consequence of human wretchedness; for the second, a hunter who supplies privileged families with bison meat, it means an even more desperate battle for survival. In this his second novel, Igor Ramírez García-Peralta contemplates the meaning of life on the brink of the sixth mass extinction. He does so with an intimate and luminous take on the friendship between two very different people. Weaving memories shattered by cataclysm with intense scenes told in real time, Valley of the Mammoths is a little too close for comfort to present reality. Fiction becomes a mirror for reconsidering our actions, seizing the reins of the future, and recognizing the power of literature to open new doors when all appears to be lost.
Author: Igor Ramírez García-Peralta
Publisher: Ediciones B
Published: 04/22/2025
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.70w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9786073850001
ISBN10: 607385000X
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino | Science Fiction
About the Author
Igor Ramírez García - Peralta(1983) escribe habitualmente sobre viajes de aventura para el suplemento How To Spend It del Financial Times, compite en triatlones de larga distancia y en travesías en aguas abiertas. Es ganadero, agricultor y vive en La Sierrazuela, un cortijo del siglo XVIII en Arcos de la Frontera, Cádiz. Creció en México y Alemania. Estudió interpretación en The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute de Nueva York y, posteriormente, Derecho en la UNAM. Obtuvo un máster en Leyes por el King's College de Londres. Trabajó como asistente de la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores de México entre 2006 y 2011 y durante casi diez años dirigió los proyectos internacionales de la fundación Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary en Viena y Madrid. De 2015 a 2019 editó su propia revista, Solar Magazine. Esta es su segunda novela, después de Ese horrible deseo de pertenecer (2021).
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