"Harsh, lyrical, cruel, and with a rare sweetness from voices almost no one hears, much less writes about. The Hill of Wrath is a powerful and beautiful novel.”—Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, National Book Award-winning author of We Are Green and Trembling

"To hear the mountain reveal her deepest secrets (intimate and unforgiving) ... What a miracle! In The Mountain Woman, Fernanda Trías’s unmistakable voice takes on a new openness, a luminous poetic quality. From the first page to the last, you breathe the mountain air, catch her wild scents, feel the raw textures of her world. A fascinating, utterly immersive experience."—Raquel Abend, author of Bloat

“A novel rooted in the Latin American tradition that reconfigures it through an exceptional female point of view full of discoveries and nuances. (...) A woman’s life as a recluse, her stark perspective on eroticism, and the emergence of sinister human violence in her environment serve as a framework for a story that combines female genealogies with the invisibility of work, the ruin of urban life with the longing for the rural world, and the joy of solitude with the drive of desire.”—Jury, 2025 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Prize

“One of the most unique and powerful texts I have read in recent years. A fantastic novel where the topic of the inner monster (a recurring theme in Trías’s work) intertwines with the question of territory—that is, the traumatic bonds that tie human geography, natural forces, and the subtleties of intimacy together. Trías, a fundamental author of Latin American literature, opens her writing to an innovative investigation that manages to establish astonishing links between very different fantastical literary traditions in Spanish: the Río de la Plata and the tropical gothic come together in a happy union.”
—Juan Cárdenas, author of The Devil of the Provinces, longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award

“El monte de las furias is an exceptional, difficult, disembodied, beautiful, primal, earthy, green, and very, very alive book, despite the fact that disappearances and time are or appear to be its greatest protagonists.”
— Emiliano Monge, author of Among the Lost 

“Good writers are researchers who transform their notes, their findings, into their own material. Fernanda Trías is one of them. And she has created a story that counterpoints the unique feminine voice with the panoramic mountain view. She empathizes with non-human rhythms and perspectives to narrate how someone separates from their mother, through distance and lies and differences to re-enter another womb, Gaia’s.”—Jorge Carrión, author of Bookshops and Against Amazon