Happy pub day to MAR DE PIEDRA [SEA OF STONE] by Aura García-Junco! 🎉 Mexico City, 2025. One of the most-transited avenues in the city is now occupied by the statues of the hundreds of women, men, and children who disappear day after day. This unusual phenomenon coincides with the propagation of the mattangs—maps that, according to believers, reveal the destinies of those who know how to read them—and whose cult has taken over the capital. When the skeptical teacher Sofía finds in one of these the trace of a ghost from the past, who is now a stone being, the currents of the cosmos will lead her to the possible origin of their disappearance. In this novel, Aura García-Junco—one of the best Spanish-language narrators of her generation according to @granta_magazine—writes an impactful metaphor of a world petrified by selfishness and violence, and shows how life and love can bloom between stone and asphalt. Published by @seix_barral. Foreign rights are with Indent Agency. For more information: https://www.indentagency.com/mar-de-piedra