No Loitering -Prohibido Hanguear
Aqui
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After four years of work, Escalona presents his new collection of stories written in New York, gathered in the book Prohibido Hanguear Aquí (No Hanging Out Here). Within its pages unfolds a refreshing gallery of endearing and unsettling characters: from a brotherly little mouse and a ruthless real-estate agent to a disoriented immigrant searching for love and a father separated from his daughter.
With agile, ironic, and deeply sensitive prose, Prohibido Hanguear Aquí makes us feel the vital force born from the collision between what is LOST and what is longed for, between origin and destination—that power we call DESIRE.
Writer Giovanna Rivero has written the following about PROHIBIDO HANGUEAR AQUÍ:
“Within these pages, a little mouse can become your only friend, and the city itself may suddenly turn into a kind of feverish musical, leading you into the realms of horror and absurdity when a couple discovers that cannibals with unsuspected tastes are prowling around their apartment. Esteban Escalona’s writing overflows with that legendary wounded Chilean humor, only then to rise into the beauty and melancholy of the most endearing literary traditions.
This is a book that narrates New York and ventures into its neighborhoods through a fresh new sensibility, one that resists the crushing wave of pessimism bearing down on the world, yet without becoming any less profound or political. Quite the opposite:”
“This book draws the most LUMINOUS aspects of New York out from its DARKEST basements.”
For his part, New York playwright Pablo Garcia has stated that:
“The characters in Prohibido Hanguear Aquí reveal the otherness that defines both their lives and the urban spaces they inhabit. In the stories that make up the volume, these perspectives transgress by exposing and re-creating aspects of reality the reader believed they already understood. The characters confront urban myths, individualism, uprootedness, and the borders imposed upon private life. Within those tensions lies both an act of resistance and an attachment to life.”