Elena Alonso-Mira

And they're both just fantastic sort of young authors.

Yeah, she's hard to place because even though she does write in a sense in a very Latin American way, sort of how what came after the boom and there is a little bit of magical realism there, which is what people usually know about Latin American writers.

It's like she picks from here and there.

So this book is actually based on a real story as well because she's a journalist.

And she picked this story from this section of the newspaper that is mainly just, it's called The Red Note in Mexico.

And it's mainly about just dramas and passion, just crimes and violence.

Just all these sort of basic news in a sense, popular news that are easy to understand and the people like to read because they're really easy and it's just about basic passions.

Yeah, exactly that.

Yeah.

And she thought that that's where you actually find the reality of the people, the reality of the people that are part of where she's from, which is a small place in Mexico.

She's from Veracruz and there is a lot of crime there.

And that's what we see also in the book.

We could, and I have heard people from Mexico compare her or ask her if she was inspired by Juan Rulfo, who is one of the greatest Mexican writers of all times.

And

Yeah, she obviously replied.

She said, well, yeah, I'm inspired by Rulfo, but who isn't?

I wouldn't dare compare myself with him.

But yeah, Rulfo also wrote a little bit about ghosts.

And he has a very, very famous book that if you haven't read it, it's called Pedro Paramo.

And it's a piece of art.