About this Event
Join us for an evening of conversation with Ecuadorian novelist Monica Ojeda, to discuss her new book Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun.
The ear is the organ of fear. It is a door to that which is not of this world.
Leaving behind the dread and decay of the city, Noa and her best friend, Nicole, travel up into the Andes, heading for Solar Noise: an eight-day festival that takes place on the side of a volcano, in the infinite expanse of the páramo. A world of mysticism and underground music, in tune with the thunder of the earth and the bellows of the mountains.
Noa has been drawn there in search of her father, who, wrestling with the violence of Ecuador, abandoned her as a child. But soon after their arrival at the festival, Noa appears possessed, speaking in a voice that is not her own. Believing Noa to be in danger, Nicole struggles to care for her friend. Until, as the party spills into Inti Raymi - the Incan festival of the sun - the girls' desire for belonging burns, incandescent, collapsing the thin membrane separating life from death, and trauma from transcendence.
Wild and incantatory, Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun is both an hallucinogenic trip of a novel, and a heartfelt meditation on love, family and kinship - one that announces the arrival of a major writer
Mónica Ojeda is a shining black sun on the birth chart of contemporary terror - Fernanda Melchor
I read Mónica Ojeda with fear and fascination. As if I were reading a spell, as if I were eating meat fearing something sharp in it. So poetic, so disturbing and brutal - Samanta Schweblin
One of the best writers of her generation - Agustina Bazterrica
Our events take place on the basement level, accessible by stairs only.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Waterstones, 150-152 King's Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 10.00 to GBP 20.00
