“Every three hours and twenty-five minutes in Mexico, a woman is killed, dismembered, strangled, raped, beaten unconscious, burned alive, torn apart by knife blows, with broken bones and sinus skin. (...) Mexico is a giant monster that eats women,” writes Dahlia de la Cerda. And it brings a commando of avengers to literary life. Young, determined and ruthless. True angels of vengeance who will not back down from a pact with the Prince of Darkness if he promises to help them.
Honestly, they don't have much of a way out. God will not be on their side. After all, he is a man, and although the 'Angry Souls' heroines love their fathers, brothers and chosen ones, a man is usually their enemy. Someone who, invoking the eternal law, claims the female body and life.
But de la Cerda does not play on one note. Her Tarantino storytelling spirit pulsates with vivid speech and sparkles with ideas. Thirteen monologues of the heroines are accompanied by grotesque and black humour; plenty of references to cinema and pop music, local customs, legends and narco culture.
The daring debut of a young Mexican writer and activist.
"A book that patches mud but cleanses at the same time."
Andrea Abreu
"I see a kind of morality in this - which may seem like an amoralite because it certainly eludes the usual canons. It’s kind of a ‘pocket atlas of women’, but from a world where conflicts are much more dramatic and extreme than here. There is also something deeply Tarantino about this book – so this allusion in the title is valid – because just as the American director took symbolic, imaginary revenge on the Nazis in Bastards of War or sectarians in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, de la Cerda retaliates on murderers and rapists.
Tomasz Pindel
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