![]() In 2015, she was recognized by the Hay Festival and the British Council as one of the leading Mexican authors under 40. The result is what the Guardian has called “a glorious tapestry of ideas”: a novel interwoven with reflections on such topics as ancient maps, miniature furniture, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, David Bowie, Proust, bad poetry, political violence, sex, death, and stationery.Īs well as Loop, Brenda Lozano has published the novels Todo nada ( All or Nothing, 2009) and Brujas ( Witches, 2020, forthcoming in English by MacLehose and Catapult), and the short story collection Cómo piensan las piedras ( How Stones Think, 2017). Instead of weaving and unravelling at her loom, she writes and erases her thoughts in a notebook, while her cat-her Telemachus-sleeps at the other end of the sofa. ![]() ![]() The protagonist of Brenda Lozano’s Loop is a modern-day Penelope, waiting in her Mexico City apartment for her boyfriend to return from a long family trip overseas. ![]()
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