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English
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
08 September 2026
A lyrically haunting and powerful account of women surviving femicide and destruction in Mexico, using fantasy to relate atrocities that exist beyond language.

From the award-winning author of the highly praised novel, Fury, one of Publisher's Weekly's Best Books of 2024 and an Indie Next Pick.

Silencio tells the story of

gueda, a young woman mourning the death of her mother. When the townspeople deny her a grave in the local cemetery, the mother's body vanishes.

gueda knows her father is hiding it, and when she confronts him, he punishes her defiance with confinement.

Serving her sentence in a house,

gueda lives within those walls as if in a second maternal womb-one that will transform her. In chapters alternating between the real and the imaginary, she mourns the destroyed futures of those who were silenced as she listens to her neighbors' stories of loss-a child worker; a boy from the Tacuate community; and Mexican refugees in Canada. Through the walls, she senses the world- birds in dialogue, the beauty of the arid landscape, experiences of love and devastation. She comes to realize that in this mountain region that resembles the author's hometown of Oaxaca, where organized crime holds sway, many-like her-mourn their dead and search for the disappeared.

In her second book to be translated into English, Clyo Mendoza transcends the limits of language and realism to represent with lyric brutality the unspeakable violence in towns where narcotrafficking rules.
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Translated by:  
Imprint:   Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 140mm, 
Weight:   369g
ISBN:   9781644215616
ISBN 10:   1644215616
Pages:   192
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

CLYO MENDOZA (Oaxaca, Mexico, 1993) is a poet and novelist. She is the author of the poetry collection Anamnesis (2016); the novel Fury (2024), which was awarded the Premio Javier Morote by the Confederaci n Espanola de Gremios y Asociaciones de Libreros and the Amazon Premio Primera Novela; and Silence (2026) was awarded the Premio Internacional de Poesia Sor Juan Ines de la Cruz. She has contributed to numerous poetry anthologies, including Poetas parricidas (Cuadrivio, 2014), Los reyes Subterraneos- Veinte poetas j venes de Mexico (La Bella Varsovia, 2015), and Liberoamericanas- 80 poetas contemporaneas (Liberoamerica, 2018). Mendoza is the recipient of scholarships from the Mexican Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes and the Fundaci n Antonio Gala, in C rdoba, Spain. She has also collaborated on various transdisciplinary projects and experiments with painting, photography, and sound collage.

Reviews for Silencio

""I will never forget the experience of reading Clyo Mendoza’s work for the first time. Few writers can pack so much mystery, heart, and truth into a single sentence. Silencio is not just a book but a spell—one you want to fall under.​"" —​Daniel Saldaña Paris, author of Planes Flying Over a Monster


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