No soñarás flores
Fernanda Trías
SHORT STORIES | 2016 | 164 pages
“Through that murky cloud, the most common things seemed strange,” recalls the narrator of No soñarás flores. This is the cloudy, twisted perspective that shows us the most obscure sides of the everyday throughout the eight stories in this book.
This strangeness reminds us of Levrero and the tradition of Uruguayan narrative (Onetti, Felisberto Hernández). Fernanda Trías inserts herself in it naturally and projects herself with a unique voice that has been recognized as one of the most important ones of her generation. Here, there are people who look at death from up close, who examine it, smell it. Lucid people, whose friends tell them, “Don’t think.”
These characters—almost always girls—roam the world on their own. Whether in Montevideo, Buenos Aires, New York, or a small town in the French countryside, they are always in transit, with their memories and losses, scars that they carry like unavoidable baggage. Broken relationships that are just the trigger for a search that always has to do with the way things are said: that impossible thing that is literature.
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“No soñarás flores is a short story collection that combines death and beauty, one that approaches the world, wary of the usual senses. Stories of characters who are in transit, of everyday betrayals of pains that don’t fit inside the sum of the days.”
“These are stories of great intensity (...) the protagonists of these stories all experience explicit violence, sickness and death, the rough solitude of a migrant in an unknown city (...) Written with an urgent search for clarity, with the desire for this passionate writing on the border to make way for a new life.”
BY FERNANDA TRÍAS:
El monte de las furias
NOVEL, 2025
Mugre rosa
NOVEL, 2020
La azotea
NOVEL, 2018
No soñarás flores
STORIES, 2016
La ciudad invencible
NOVEL, 2013