The Wax Child
Women who really do work magic, condemned by a court that manufactures its evidence anyway.
A disciplined archive of reading and reflection
Women who really do work magic, condemned by a court that manufactures its evidence anyway.
A husband gone to Macau under another man's name, explaining himself in letters that reach his wife too late.
An investigation into strange objects aboard a generational ship escalates into a labour dispute the organisation acknowledges and buries simultaneously.
A gardener paid in rum to hear out the boy next door, turning a nightly fantasy into a plan.
A prison cell behind a bathroom wall serves an exile her country back, and it dissolves on the way out.
Twelve accounts from Veracruz move between reportage, testimony and rumour, where the version of an event decides what happens next.
A history teacher plans his death in private, undone by a disclosure that rewrites the marriage behind it.
Two accounts of the same fifteen years, measuring what one woman inherits against what the other improvises across the road.
A woman's murder narrated as folklore, exposing the contempt that made her killable long before anyone raised a knife.
A disgraced professor's self-knowledge restaged as evidence, ending in a shape borrowed from every story about men like him.
Political injury reassigned as private failure, each record altered before it can testify, until only the safer account survives in print.
Violence converted into procedure across ten novels, from a Brazilian slaughterhouse to a predator whose vocabulary outlives him.