Mondays at Zenda.Monday of Spanish-language storytelling. Monday, in this case, devoted to Glaxo, one of the early novels by Argentine writer Hernán Ronsino (Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires, 1975), originally published in 2009 and now revived, in a new edition, by the publishing house Sexto Piso. The germ of the narration is an event that completely shakes the communal life of a small Argentine town. Around that event, several generations pivot as if drawn to it by a gravitational force, thereby reconstructing a story filled with blank spaces, mysteries to be solved and questions only distantly capable of being answered.
In the original editorial note, regarding the book: “In a small town in the Buenos Aires province, where factories, businesses, and people appear and disappear without fanfare, a violent episode breaks the apparent calm and forever alters the course of several lives.
Four voices, positioned across different times between 1959 and 1984, reconstruct a story laden with suspicion, ambiguous loyalties, and long-buried secrets. Each voice illuminates part of the events and darkens another, composing a plot in which the full truth never fully reveals itself.
What emerges from these voices is far more than the tale of a crime: it is the portrait of a community marked by desire, betrayal, resentment, and silence. With extraordinarily precise prose and a structure as subtle as it is absorbing, Hernán Ronsino signs one of the most admired novels in contemporary Argentine literature.”
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Author: Hernán Ronsino. Title: Glaxo. Publisher: Sexto Piso. Sales: Todos tus libros.