Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun
Mnica Ojeda author Sarah Booker translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Coffee House Press
Publishing:25th Jun '26
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 25th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
National Book Award finalist Mónica Ojeda returns with a blazing, psychedelic novel about girlhood, violence, and the loss of innocence.
In the near future, best friends Noa and Nicole flee their home in Guayaquil, Ecuador to attend the Solar Noise Festival, a week-long, retro-futuristic gathering at the foot of an active volcano. While Noa fully embraces the haze of narcotics and hedonism in an effort to obscure her true reason for attending, Nicole senses something darker at play behind the festival’s so-called “celebration of life.” Amid technoshamanic poetry, collective hallucinations, and ritualistic dances, each girl navigates her own path in an effort to escape her past and reclaim her right to a future.
Vivid, terrifying, and celebratory, Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun blends the primal with the supernatural, solidifying Mónica Ojeda as one of the most singular and exciting voices in Latin American and world literature today.
Praise for Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun
"A rare, strange treasure; a story told in daring, luminous prose, populated by characters with poetry in their hearts." —Natalia Theodoridou, author of Sour Cherry
“Psychedelia, volcanoes, disintegration. Following Ojeda on this journey is, without a doubt, an intense experience.” —Mariana Enríquez, author of A Sunny Place for Shady People
“Mónica Ojeda is a dazzling black sun in the astral chart of contemporary horror.” —Fernanda Melchor, author of Paradais
“With fear and fascination, that's how I read Mónica Ojeda. As if reading a spell, as if biting into flesh, fearing to find something sharp inside. So poetic, so disturbing, and brutal.” —Samanta Schweblin, author of Little Eyes
Praise for Mónica Ojeda
Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature
Finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
Longlisted for the 2023 PEN Translation Prize
“[Ojeda’s] language, like adolescence itself, is unruly and excessive, full of dramatic shifts and capable of both beauty and horror.” —Anderson Tepper, The New York Times
“Ojeda is a strikingly singular voice.” —Yvonne C. Garrett, The Brooklyn Rail
“Ojeda [draws] comparisons to Shirley Jackson, H.P. Lovecraft, and Edgar Allen Poe.” —The A.V. Club
“Mónica Ojeda has at her disposal the most enviable combination I can imagine, and she has it in spades: a lucid mind, an exacting language, and a wild heart.” —Andrés Barba, author of A Luminous Republic
ISBN: 9781566897556
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
250 pages