By José Luis Ortiz Güell, columnist and writer
"Sir, the cage has turned into a bird. What shall I do with the fear?" — Alejandra Pizarnik
With that quote as its threshold, Pedazos de Tiempo opens—a novel that is not merely read, but lived. A work that does not seek to please or satisfy, but to awaken, challenge, and shatter the mirrors in which we gaze each day. Literature, when authentic, does not hide: it exposes itself. And that is precisely what this book does from its first chapter: it strips bare the night, the mind, the soul.
Vanessa Andrade—detective, woman, creator of fictions and dweller of overflowing realities—is the protagonist of this story that moves between insomnia and desire, anxiety and lucidity, truth and the digital mirrors that distort us. She—together with her inseparable partner Belén Segura—runs an agency that investigates other people’s lives, while trying to understand her own. But as in every great novel, the boundaries dissolve. And in that blurring, mystery is born.
With subtle yet sharp prose, full of lyricism and social critique, PEDAZOS DE TIEMPO is much more than a novel: it is an emotional, sensorial, and intellectual experience. There is the scent of suspense, the haze of desire, the vertigo of existence. And there is also beauty: the beauty of language brushing against perfection.
Love, emptiness, the body, memory, solitude in the age of profiles and appearances. This book forces us to ask: Who are we when no one is watching? What version of ourselves is trapped in the fragments we share?
One of the most intense passages describes how Julia—another central figure—obsessively keeps traces of Roberto: his image, his phrases, his scent encapsulated in memories. She doesn’t love him: she possesses him. She doesn’t remember him: she reconstructs him. And in that reconstruction, she loses and finds herself.
"She began to dream, to hallucinate with fantasies her empty imagination created with the urge to keep living, to keep desiring."
With this sentence, the author delivers one of the most powerful keys of the book: desire as the engine of survival.
A literary signature with the future of a classic
With PEDAZOS DE TIEMPO, not only publishes a novel: they establish their name as a prestigious literary brand. Their style—elegant, profound, daring—achieves that rare balance: to move and provoke, to stir emotions and inspire reflection.
This is not just another work. It is a mirror novel, where each reader will find a piece of themselves and, perhaps, if they dare, the map to rebuild who they are.
PEDAZOS DE TIEMPO
Available from April 2025
A commitment to beauty, thought, suspense, and sensuality.
A title destined to become the literary benchmark of the year.
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