This World Does Not Belong to Us, Natalia Garcia Freire
This World Does Not Belong to Us, Natalia Garcia Freire
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This World Does Not Belong to Us

Author: Natalia García Freire, Victor Meadowcroft

Narrator: Giordan Diaz

Unabridged: 3 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/09/2022

Synopsis

After years away, Lucas returns uninvited to the home he was expelled from as a child. The garden has been conquered by weeds, which blanket his mother’s beloved flowerbeds and his father’s grave alike. A lot has changed since Eloy and Felisberto were invited into the family home to work for Lucas’s father, long ago. The two hulking strangers have brought the land and everyone on it under their control—and removed nuisances like Lucas. Now everything rots.Lucas, a hardened young man, turns to a world that thrives in dirt and darkness: the world of insects. In raw, lyrical prose, García Freire portrays a world brought low by human greed, while hinting at glimmers of hope in the unlikeliest places.

About Natalia García Freire

Natalia García Freire was born in Cuenca, Ecuador. She teaches Creative Writing at Azuay University and has also worked as a primary school teacher. García Freire’s journalistic work has appeared in outlets such as BBC Mundo and Univisión, and her short story “Noche de fiesta” was published in the Spanish literary journal La gran belleza. This World Does Not Belong to Us is García Freire’s debut novel. It was nominated for the Tigre Juan literary award and selected by the New York Times as one of the best Spanish-language books of 2019. It has been translated into Italian, French, and Turkish.

About Giordan Diaz

Giordan Diaz is a New York City-based Cuban-American actor. He attended Barry University, where he majored in theater and earned a BFA with a specialization in acting. His voiceover work ranges from roles in video games in South Korea and educational cartoons to audiobooks.

About Victor Meadowcroft

Victor Meadowcroft grew up at the foot of the Sintra Mountains in Portugal and translates from Portuguese and Spanish. His translations of works by María Fernanda Ampuero, Itamar Vieira Junior, and Murilo Rubião have appeared in the literary journals Latin American Literature Today and Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. On his blog, Onomatomania, he publishes interviews with authors, publishers, and translators.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alejandra

Amo aquí.......more

Goodreads review by Jill

“Because I understand now that all fathers have a god inside them and look down upon their sons like clay figurines, always incomplete, wanting to create them over and over in their own image and likeness…And all men on earth are nothing but cracked and timorous clay sons…” This World Does Not Belong......more

Goodreads review by Mariana

Lo devoré (o me devoró). Tengo mucho que procesar <3......more

Goodreads review by Myriam

Lucas regresa a su casa y habla con su padre muerto sobre el presente y el pasado. Es un monólogo interior, no hay aparecidos, pero sí hay tristeza, obsesiones y locura. El título alude al cambio de piel y a la metamorfosis que sufren algunos insectos en consonancia con la transformación del narrador......more

Quotes

“Disquieting and visceral…García Freire unearths a brilliant sense of the miraculous from the swarming and putrid subject matter. The result is beautifully macabre.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“One of the debut novels that most stood out this year.” New York Times

“This World Does Not Belong to Us leads the readers into the deepest, darkest regions of human existence, where what is most infected and rotten becomes beautiful and liberating.” Toda Literatura

“Natalia García Freire is unbelievably young to have written a first work of such talent.” Relatos en construcción

“A maturity that leaves you breathless. This great writer forces us to lie down on the earth and be touched by insects, plants, and matter.” Radio Nacional España

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