Translation Rights TQE / All Nothing

“Nothing to do with the lyrical outbursts that are so common in a first novel. Brenda Lozano, a new voice in the old house of literature.” Guillermo Fadanelli

“An interesting, punctilious narrator who fights tooth and nail language, sentences, words, life; who wants to write true literature -and I think, she achieves so-. She inaugurates a voice, a tone, a style of her own in the present Mexican literature that promises the production of a future masterpiece.” Azteca 21

“A disturbing work despite its apparent lightness. Fresh and dressed with energy, Brenda Lozano jumps on the arena of the national arts with some well cared for, sober and clear pages under her arm.” Milenio

 As an old man, Emilio Nassar, the well-known gastric specialist, had a project: to let himself starve to death. As a witness to that project, he chose his young grand-daughter, Emilia, with whom he shared coffee and conversation before his death. Still affected by his loss, while in the middle of a turbulent relationship, Emilia decides to reconstruct the last months spent with her grandfather before his death; the last months of that voracious reader, that hopeless megalomaniac, authoritarian father, sweet grandfather, hard-headed conservative, film lover, and gentleman. Without solemnity, Emilia remembers the lively and moving monologues of someone who, regardless of his suicidal determination, always had a memory, a revelation, or a new prejudice to share, as was expected from an intolerant man, who also knew how to be tender. His smartest bit of advice was, “We have not been put on this earth to sleep with anxiety, we are here to have a good time.” And yet Emilia will realize just how difficult it is to apply that simple principle to her own chaotic life while shedding a low, sad, but revealing light on the meaning of our affections.

Todo nada, the author’ first novel, is a surprisingly mature work, capable of transmitting strong observations with irreverence and humor, while creating a lovable character from an intense and unusual female perspective.

Brenda Lozano was born in Mexico City in 1981. She is a narrator and an essayist, and collaborates with Letras Libres and Día Siete, among other publications. She studied Latin American Literature in the Iberoamericana University. She has been an intern in the Young Creators program of the national ministry of culture and arts. Her work is included in several anthologies.