98 Segundos Sin Sombra

Genoveva is sixteen. She goes to a Catholic girls' school and lives, as she puts it, in the Ass End of the World - a remote town in deep Latin America, where modernization arrives hand-in-hand with drug trafficking. Between a mother lost in delusional dreams and a father clinging to the ruins of long-faded Trotskyism, Genoveva narrates her world with a voice that's raw, contradictory, fearless, and startlingly innocent.She doesn't like what she sees. She doesn't like what she touches. She doesn't like the life she has - or the one that awaits her. But from that discomfort emerges a fierce spiritual longing, a desperate urge to believe in something - anything - that might offer an escape.98 Seconds Without a Shadow is a luminous, unsettling coming-of-age novel about faith, rebellion, and the unbearable solitude of adolescence. Through Genoveva's eyes, we glimpse a broken world where horror and hope are indistinguishable - and survival may lie in surrendering to either. Genoveva is sixteen. She goes to a Catholic girls' school and lives, as she puts it, in the Ass End of the World - a remote town in deep Latin America, where modernization arrives hand-in-hand with drug trafficking. Between a mother lost in delusional dreams and a father clinging to the ruins of long-faded Trotskyism, Genoveva narrates her world with a voice that's raw, contradictory, fearless, and startlingly innocent.She doesn't like what she sees. She doesn't like what she touches. She doesn't like the life she has - or the one that awaits her. But from that discomfort emerges a fierce spiritual longing, a desperate urge to believe in something - anything - that might offer an escape.98 Seconds Without a Shadow is a luminous, unsettling coming-of-age novel about faith, rebellion, and the unbearable solitude of adolescence. Through Genoveva's eyes, we glimpse a broken world where horror and hope are indistinguishable - and survival may lie in surrendering to either.

Giovanna Rivero nació en la ciudad de Montero, Santa Cruz, en 1972. Es una cuentista y novelista boliviana. Es escritora y doctora en literatura hispanoamericana. En 2004, participó en el Iowa Writing Program y en 2006 fue premiada con la beca Fulbright que le permitió obtener una maestría en literatura latinoamericana de la Universidad de Florida. En 2014, pasó a recibir un doctorado en la misma universidad.​ En 2011, fue seleccionada por la Feria del Libro de Guadalajara como una de las 25 jóvenes promesas de la literatura latinoamericana.Es autora de los libros de cuentos Las bestias (1997, Premio Municipal Santa Cruz), Contraluna (2005), Sangre dulce (2006), Niñas y detectives (2009) y Para comerte mejor (2015, Premio Dante Alighieri 2018). También publicó los libros juveniles La dueña de nuestros sueños (2005), por el que recibió el Premio en Cuentos Franz Tamayo, y Lo más oscuro del bosque (2015, Libro recomendado del año por La Academia Boliviana de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil). Ha publicado cuatro novelas: Las camaleonas (2001), Tukzon (2008), Helena 2022 (2011) y 98 segundos sin sombra (2014, Premio Audiobook Narration y llevada al cine por el director boliviano Juan Pablo Richter). Giovanna Rivero is a Bolivian writer named by the Guadalajara Book Fair as one of the 25 emerging stars of Latin American literature. Her short story collection Fresh Dirt from the Grave, published by Charco Press, introduced her work to English-language readers. Her writing is widely recognised for renewing the fantastic genre in Latin American fiction.