A liliana's invincible summer: sister's search for justice

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIRA 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, TIME AND NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR'Meticulously written and deeply moving . . . A triumph' JACKIE KAY'Absorbing and poetic' ECONOMIST'Full of tenderness and beauty' MARIANA ENRIQUEZFrom one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, an astonishing work of non-fiction that illuminates an epidemic of femicide in Mexico through the death of one woman.I seek justice, I finally said. I seek justice for my sister . . . Sometimes it takes twenty-nine years to say it out loud, to say it out loud on a phone call with a lawyer at the General Attorney's office: I seek justice.On the dawn of 16 July 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, Cristina Rivera Garza's sister, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend and subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of femicide.She was a twenty-year-old architecture student who had been trying for years to end her relationship with a high school boyfriend who insisted on not letting her go. A few weeks before the tragedy, Liliana made a definitive decision: at the height of her winter she had discovered that, as Albert Camus had said, there was an invincible summer in her. She would leave him behind. She would start a new life. She would do a master's degree and a doctorate; she would travel to London. But his decision was that she would not have a life without him.Returning to Mexico after decades of living in the United States, Cristina Rivera Garza collects and curates evidence – handwritten letters, police reports, school notbookss, voice recordings and architectural blueprints – to defy a pattern of increasingly normalised, gendered violence and understand the life lost. What she finds is Liliana: her sister's voice crossing time and, like that of so many disappeared and outraged women in Mexico, demanding justice.

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Autor: Cristina Rivera Garza

Autor

CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA

Cristina Rivera Garza nasceu em outubro de 1964, em Matamoros, no México, região fronteiriça com os Estados Unidos. Formada em Sociologia e doutora em História, é professora da Universidade de Houston, onde fundou o doutorado em Escrita Criativa. É autora de livros de contos, poesia e não-ficção e sua obra já recebeu traduções ao inglês, italiano, alemão, coreano, francês, esloveno e português. Recebeu prêmios como o Anna Seghers de Literatura Latino-americana, o Bellas Artes de Novela José Rubén Romero, o Excelencia en las Letras José Emilio Pacheco, o Roger Caillois e o Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, este em duas ocasiões. Recentemente, O invencível verão de Liliana (Autêntica, 2022) venceu o Prêmio Pulitzer e o prêmio Xavier Villaurrutia, dentre outros. No Brasil, publicou o livro de ensaios Os mortos indóceis: necroescritas e desapropriação (Martins Fontes, 2024) e, em 2025, Autobiografia do algodão (Autêntica).