Electric shamans at the Festival of the Sun
Ojeda, Mónica, 1988-2026
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Leaving behind the dread and decay of the city, Noa and her best friend, Nicole, travel up into the Andes, headed for Solar Noise: an eight-day festival that takes place on the side of a volcano. It is a world of shamanism and underground music, a world in tune with the thunder of the earth and the bellows of the mountains. Noa has been drawn there in search of her father, who abandoned her as a child, and who now lives somewhere near the festival site. But soon after their arrival, she begins speaking in a voice that is not her own. Believing Noa to be in danger, Nicole struggles to care for her friend. Until, as the party spills into Inti Raymi - the Incan festival of the sun - the girls' desire for belonging burns, incandescent, collapsing the thin membrane separating life from death, trauma from transcendence, and ecstasy from oblivion.
Main title:
Electric shamans at the Festival of the Sun / Mónica Ojeda ; translated by Sarah Booker.
Author:
Ojeda, Mónica, 1988-, authorBooker, Sarah, translator
Imprint:
London : Granta Books, 2026.
Collation:
256 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Spanish.
ISBN:
9781803512419 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
863.7
Language:
EnglishSpanish
BRN:
9088041