THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT OF ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED AND AWARD-WINNING POETIC VOICES

A unique queer novel that torpedoes the immortal limits of affection: is it possible to love outside of a common language?

After five years away from Italy, Mia returns to Lecce to care for her mother, who is in the advanced stages of dementia and no longer speaks, only sings. In the house, she encounters Cavalli, a stray cat who awakens a new and strange tenderness in her mother. Her mother's physical and mental decline, coupled with the close bond she has formed with the animal, sets Mia on an obsessive path of transformation. If she couldn't be loved as a daughter, perhaps she can receive that love from another source.

Raw milk It delves into the blurred boundaries of communication, the queer impulse of the imagination, and the urgent need to invent ways of loving beyond a shared language. Between the poetic and the raw, it asks: can crossing the boundaries between human and animal be a way to bridge the gap that separates us?

Ángelo Néstore employs a hybrid language that melts away gender barriers to delve into universal themes such as grief, the fierce bonds between mothers and daughters, illness, and everyday tenderness. With this novel, which is read with the body and the senses, he demonstrates that mistakes shape our future and that affection is a celebration when it comes hand in hand with literature.

“A voluptuous and melancholic celebration of language. [...] It has the warm texture of memory, with its traps and idealizations. If we are what our memory selects to construct us, I have rarely read it as clearly and movingly as in this novel. Pure beauty.” – Alana SGoalkeeper

Angelo Nestor (Lecce, 1986) is a poet, performer, and artist based in Málaga. Among other works, he has published the poetry collections Impure acts, My will be done and I wish to be a treeHe has received awards such as the Hiperión, the Emilio Prados, and the V ESPASAesPOESÍA Prize. His poetry appears in various anthologies and has been translated into several languages. In addition to his work as a translator and teacher, he directs the poetry publishing house Letraversal and co-directs the Irreconciliables festival. Raw milk It is his first novel.