Botica

Yuliana Ortiz Ruano
32 pages
21 x 15 cm
Two-color Riso printing, sewn bound
Language: English
First edition 2024
Co-edited with recodo press

In this emotional short story, the African-Ecuadorian celebrated author Yuliana Ortiz Ruano interweave her intimate childhood memories with an ancestral medicine guide, exposing the Latin American colonial wound. This is a co-edition with Recodo Press, printed and sewn in Quito, Ecuador, and the first translation of Botica ever.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Yuliana Ortiz Ruano (Limones, 1992) is an Ecuadorian writer. Among the awards she has obtained is the Joaquín Gallegos Lara Prize for the best novel of the year, which she won in 2022 for her Fiebre de carnaval. In her works explores, among other topics, the traditions and reality of the Afro-Ecuadorian population.