SABINA URRACA presents her book 'THE ZEAL'

SABINA MAGPIE

THE ZEAL

The night she found the Dog, the Human was drugged. That's why she let him follow her home. Now she lives with an animal that is filling up with all the energy she lacks, and who suddenly becomes uncontrollably jealous. The Human is thirty-two years old, but no longer wants to. She is in life, but she doesn't exercise it. She came to the city recently, fleeing from her days in the country with a boyfriend she had. She suffers from strange symptoms, tremors, bruises that appear on their own. One day she bends down to tie her shoelaces and discovers that she can't. The Human fears a curse that is advancing. In order for the psychiatrist to agree to prescribe her more tranquilizers, she will have to attend group therapy. There she will meet Mecha, a fascinating woman who becomes, along with the Dog, an animal that is difficult to save.

Zeal is a story about domestication, curses, the animality of desire, fear as an inheritance and the power of stories. Poltergeists, mad dogs and a family history that is built through bites and silences.

Sabina Urraca (San Sebastián, 1984). Writer and editor. She grew up in Tenerife and has lived in Madrid for more than 20 years. She is the author of the novels Las niñas prodigio (Fulgencio Pimentel, 2017), winner of the Javier Morote Prize awarded by CEGAL, Soñó con la chica que robaba un caballo (Lengua de trapo, 2021), Chachachá (Dueto) (Comisura, 2023) and El celo (Alfaguara, 2024). She regularly collaborates with media such as El País, El Cultural and Zenda. In 2019 she made her debut as an editor with Panza de burro , by Andrea Abreu (Editorial Barrett), within the project Editora por un libro . She is the resident editor of the Caballo de Troya imprint (Penguin Random House) during 2023 and 2024. In 2020, she received the MFA in Spanish Creative Writing scholarship from the University of Iowa. In 2022, she received the Leonardo scholarship for creators from the BBVA Foundation.