Desert and its Seed

Desert and Its Seed Book Description Jorge Baron Biza has ultimately been compared to writers such as Proust and Joyce. A cult masterpiece.-Enrique Vila-Matas A great novel. Alejandro Zambra “The face is for accepting the other, everything we accept is on the face: the eye, the ear, the mouth, even the cheek that got hit. What we call face is for people to get to know each other better. That's why it's sacred […] because now it's the Other. People should make their faces the cradle of love. If there is the will to love, only then there is a true face; If you don't love, your neighbor's face will turn into a steak and become scary... Everyone forgot to be afraid. In the past, all of our faces would change when we got scared. Now I see that I am the only coward left. When a person is afraid, nature changes, the taste of food changes, and even fear itself changes.” Çöl ve Seed opens with the scene of a woman named Eligia, who had acid thrown on her face by her ex-husband, being taken to the hospital. Alongside him is Mario, who will accompany us as a narrator throughout the novel. The treatment process drags Eligia and Mario to Milan, and while Eligia's damaged face is meticulously reconstructed, Mario explores the city's streets, bars, nightclubs, prostitutes, tycoons and the dark sides of his own damaged character in the time he has left over from his maintenance duty. As Eligia responds to the treatment, Mario realizes that it is not only Eligia's face that is deserted, just as it is not only Eligia who needs healing or hope... Written by Jorge Barón Biza, based on his family's tragic story, and rejected by publishers in Buenos Aires, Three years before his suicide, his autobiographical novel Desert and Its Seed, which he published with his own efforts, was translated from the Spanish original by Soykan Özyurt... (From the Promotional Bulletin)