Raiza Jimenez, CLL Track Student, Releases New Book
Monday, Oct 17, 2022
Jimenez was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. She has worked as a journalist in national media such as El Heraldo and Revista Actual. As a poet, she participated in several international poetry festivals, such as PoemaRío, Palabra de Mujer and the First Meeting of Women Poets in Macondo. Her poems have been published in the collectives María Mulata, Puentes de Agua and the Revista Víacuarenta, of the Biblioteca Piloto del Caribe. In 2022, she received a master’s degree in Comparative Literature from Florida Atlantic University. Duermevela is her incursion into the narrative genre.
Duermevela is an overwhelming story, based on real events that took place in Barranquilla, Colombia. Urban legend tells that a woman named Leonor made clay masks, which talked to each other and followed the neighbors of the sector with their eyes.
The author takes us through places of life and the world of dreams, where we can meet sinister characters, such as a woman with long and tattered hair, with a mask on her face. She will present herself in your dreams, on the astral plane, or even the real plane. This is how with mastery, Marcela De Albali (pen name of Raiza Jiménez Striedinger) takes us through incredible, terrifying, or even exotic places, by the hand of the protagonist, Fernando, a young lawyer, with a great life ahead, but who will have to learn to face his worst fears: the paralysis of sleep or beings as frightening as the entity that pursues him.
Link for purchase: https://www.buscalibre.us/libro-duermevela/9789585191730/p/54106395
Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Marcela-Albali-ebook/dp/B09SN3BK1C/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_es_US=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=marcella+duermevela&qid=1663280348&sr=8-1
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