現Slice of life · gen · what is present
The diary
A notebook written at street level: the tiny apartment, the fifty thousand yen a month, the train rides, the grey working days paid for in hours of life.
著者About the book
A novel in two voices, in the same city.
One single book, read from beginning to end. Beneath the surface, however, two stories run in parallel: one in full daylight, the other against the light. The second one only reveals itself once the first has trained the reader's eye.
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幻Magical realism · gen · what appears
The other side
What happens in the same city when nobody is looking: a thousand-year forest opening under the rain, an immense owl in the mist, a library hidden among cedars.
Author's note
Christian Delgado
Mathematician and writer
Born in Bogotá, where he writes. Devoted to Japanese culture —which he has learned with the slowness of someone willing to be taught— he believes that through writing and literature we can know ourselves better and, in the same measure, heal. Since December 2024 he has kept this double notebook: an everyday chronicle and, alongside it, its imagined reverse.