Translation Rights TQE / The Possessed

A new girl, Felisa Wilmer, enters the all-girls religious school to the north of Buenos Aires. She has just arrived from London and quickly becomes the center of attention due to her rebellious attitude and bad behavior, as well as to the “poetic” aura that surrounds her artistic tendencies, perfect English and independent and inscrutable personality. At least that is how López sees her, the narrator and main character who will soon befriend her. Both girls live between the weird (to a greater or lesser extent) legends that schoolmates tell each other about the history of their school and some “real dangers” that they find in the surrounding areas. Little by little, López will come to know the story of her friend, how Felisa’s mother died in an accident and the reasons for her eccentric, suicidal and “possessed” behavior. As the jury of the Tusquets Prize for Novel 2012 stated, Betina González skillfully weaves a plot that combines diverse genres and elements, the non-indulgent recreation of the sexual awakening during adolescence and a defiant attitude to the inheritance of adulthood, as well as the atmosphere of a religious school that ends up becoming a subtle reflection of a country just stepping out of a dictatorship, all of this narrated with a sweeping and original style of very high literary quality.

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