La versatilidad de las cosas
Short stories · Ediciones Diotima · In Spanish
Stories in which the everyday opens, like a flower, to the mystery of its fragrance.
About the storiesFabiana Galcerán
Novels and short stories about time, desire and what remains hidden.
“To narrate is to be born again in other bodies, in other times.”
The novel
The House of Whispers
She went to Italy to claim an inheritance. She found a secret that had been waiting for her for a hundred years.
Francesca is a journalist suffocating in the routine of Buenos Aires, until a letter from Italy changes everything. A villa she never knew existed is now hers.
Behind its doors she finds more than faded splendor. She finds a love she wasn’t looking for, and with it a family mystery reaching back to 1914, when Europe stood on the edge of war and another woman made a choice that would echo through generations.
Two women. Two destinies. One connection that time could not erase.
Because some houses don’t just hold the past. They whisper it.
“A novel about time: historical time, that of the first war, which broke out with fury across Europe, but above all evoked time, the kind that calls to us and summons us with its echo: it whispers to us.” — Mariano Ducros
Works
The books
El revés del abanico
Novel · HQÑ — HarperCollins Ibérica · In Spanish
London, New York and the Aquitania in 1920: illusionism, spiritualism and a love triangle.
About the novel
The House of Whispers
Novel · Ediciones Diotima
An inheritance in Italy, a love, and a family mystery whispering since 1914.
About the novelRandom
Roll the dice. I’ll give you a story.
Like dice cast to the wind, chance confronts us with the unpredictable, turning every choice into a move on an infinite board.
In the chaos of chance lies the wonder of the unknown.
About Fabiana
Writer and photographer
Fabiana Galcerán is an Argentine writer and photographer. She is the author of the novel The House of Whispers, the short-story collection La versatilidad de las cosas (Ediciones Diotima) and the historical novel El revés del abanico (HQÑ, HarperCollins Ibérica).
Her stories are born from dreams, from travels and from family memory: time, mystery and hidden lives are her narrative territory.
Meet Fabiana“I always say that if stories come to me, it is because I am waiting for them; it is a bit like Cortázar used to say: I am a kind of medium who receives them.”Fabiana Galcerán