That is the uninhabited land. Those are the settlers who came to that land. Those are their curses: thirst, hunger, the creatures swallowed by the plains. That is Jocabed, who was born with teeth, and those are her twin daughters, Zeta and Primavera. One will go mad with love; the other will become both woman and tree.
Drawing on the tradition of fairy tales and fables, Luciana De Luca’s third novel, written in hypnotic prose, plunges us into a harsh and violent land where everything is nature, life, death, and transformation. In that pit, on the threshold of a dark and yearning forest, the three women will find a way to perpetuate the love that binds them together.