Editors' Fair: A map to find 10 literary gems at FED 2025, which starts today.

The Editors' Fair ( FED ) once again becomes the epicenter of independent literature , offering a catalog that goes beyond the conventional. This year, a selection of true literary gems invites readers to delve into unexplored worlds, from the critique of the family institution in Gustavo Ferreyra's acclaimed work to the sharp reflections on faith and totalitarianism in the rediscovered books of Hilary Mantel and Jesse Ball. But there's more.

From Minae Mizumura's generational saga in postwar Japan to Alejo Auslender's intimate diary of underground rock, each book on this list is a gateway to a universe of its own. The complexities of love, the challenges of memory, and the tensions of geopolitics are explored in the works of Marguerite Eymery, Guillermo Saccomanno, Clarice Lispector, and Leticia Manauta, among others. A tour of ten gems to look for at the FED from this Thursday to Sunday from 2:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Art Media Complex, located at 6271 Corrientes Avenue. Free admission.

The family is, as Mariana Enríquez points out in the prologue, Gustavo Ferreyra's Obelisk or atomic bomb. A complete work that explodes his poetic vision and projects itself into a horizonless future, in which the workings of an institution in crisis yet still alive are exposed. This is the author's fifth title published by Ediciones Godot, with the aim of highlighting the journey and place of a work like Ferreyra's.

Hilary Mantel's Fludd tells of the arrival of a mysterious stranger to an English village where a disbelieving priest and a dissatisfied nun are going through a spiritual crisis. Claiming to be transformative, Fludd unleashes profound changes in an environment marked by boredom, religious repression, and routine.

The novel combines a scathing critique of the Catholic Church with a subtle reflection on change, free will, and human beliefs. Published in 1989 and winner of several literary awards, this work—now translated into Spanish for the first time—confirms Mantel's talent for insightfully exploring the tensions between faith, doubt, and transformation.

Originally published in 2011, Curfew is one of Jesse Ball's first novels and the one that began to cement his international fame as one of the most original American storytellers today. It was also his first book translated into Spanish. Curfew was out of print for several years, and Stealth is pleased to add it to its catalog, alongside the five Jesse Ball titles we have published, to once again make it available to its enthusiastic readers.

Starting with the haunting story of a forbidden love, A True Novel chronicles Japan's last half-century. Here, Japan's prewar social structure is exposed as the source of the miseries, hardships, longings, splendors, and human tragedies that gradually led to the emergence of an ambivalent middle class in the fifty years following the war. The novel narrates the saga of several generations and different social levels, from the mid-twentieth century to present-day Japan. Written with narrative mastery down to the smallest details, Minae Mizumura's prose has been described as "symphonic." Compared to classics such as Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby , A True Novel marks a defining moment in the history of Japanese literature.

In the heart of the ocean, where the wind and the waves dictate the laws, rises the Ar-Men lighthouse, a man-eating tower. Inside, Jean Maleux, a young, newly arrived guardian, must coexist with Mathurin Barnabas, an old man cloistered there for years, consumed by resentment and loneliness, transforming into a monstrous being. As the lighthouse creaks under the fury of the sea, a game of submission and resistance, of power and desire, unfolds between the two, where the line between the human and the bestial blurs.

A boy tells his unborn brother what awaits him when he arrives and everything that happens before his birth. Through the humorous, naive, and frank eyes of this impatient little narrator, the story speaks deeply to issues such as time, change, and family relationships.

It brings together 18 articles and chronicles that the author wrote during his frequent travels around the region, from his youth, when he performed his military service in Neuquén, to his encounter decades later with Nano Balbo (an adult teacher in the Mapuche community, kidnapped by the last dictatorship and exiled in Italy until 1984).

The texts cover aspects that involve Patagonia, not as a "tourist territory," but as one that urgently needs to be contemplated and analyzed from a historical and political perspective. It also contains profound reflections on writing and its commitment to the land and its inhabitants. It draws on the work of other writers such as Osvaldo Bayer, Leopoldo Brizuela, and Bruce Chatwin.

The music press, books, and the media in general have instilled the idea of the successful artist, the rock star, the triumphant musician who shines on stage and lives surrounded by fame, admiration, glamour, and money. But for every one of these mass idols, there are who knows how many other musicians who, beyond their greater or lesser tenacity or talent—if such things can be measured—fail to emerge into the light and into the eyes of the general public. Deportivo Alemán is one of those many bands from the so-called underground—the invisible underground, as Alejo Auslender, their guitarist and author of this story, more precisely and crudely defines it—who thrive on the stage in search of elusive transcendence and an audience. With a great sense of humor, a touch of epic, and a fair amount of philosophy, these first-person chronicles are an intimate diary that allows us a glimpse into much of what lies behind every young person (in age or spirit) we see on the street carrying a guitar case on their back.

Passion According to GH (1964) tells the story of a woman's relationship with a man, of a woman with herself, of a woman with another, of a woman with all others, of a woman with Being; ultimately, it is also the story of a woman with the novel she herself constructs. This journey in search of meaning also represents the way in which GH rediscovers himself.

Leticia brings atavistic news from a world that no longer exists, but when read or heard, it touches an intimate, common, collective, social fiber, which involves the use made of memory, a memory also shared, in times, these times, in which collective memory is questioned by a reactionary individualism.