The new book by the author of The bad ones confirms Cabello Sosa Villada as one of the most powerful voices in contemporary narrative. In I'm a fool for loving you It brings together nine stories where the line between the real and the prodigious is constantly blurred, with an imagination that moves between the intimate, the dark and the fantastic.

In the heart of the 1990s, a woman earns a living as a call girl for gay men; in a Harlem drug den, a Latina transvestite spends a night with Billie Holiday; a group of rugby players negotiate the price of a sex session and end up getting what they deserve. Nuns, grandmothers, children, and dogs reveal themselves to be very different from what they seem. These eccentric and profoundly human characters confront an ominous reality from places as strange as they are.

With an unmistakable style, Sosa Villada blends popular and baroque elements, chronicle and twisted fairy tale. She can place believable archaic Spanish in the mouth of a victim of the Mexican Inquisition while simultaneously conjuring dystopian universes where transvestite existence exacts its revenge. In these stories, the author effortlessly crosses the boundaries between reality and magic, updating oral tradition with a solid, radical, and highly personal voice.

About the author

Cabello Sosa Villada (Córdoba, Argentina, 1982) studied Social Communication and Theater at the National University of Córdoba. In 2009 she premiered her first show, Carnes tolendas, a stage portrait of a transvestiteShe is the author of the poems Sandro's girlfriend (2015), from the stories I'm a fool for loving you (2022), and of the novels The bad ones (2020) and Thesis on domestication (2024).