Tomorrow at 7 pm, in the bookstore Tipos Infames de Madrid (calle de San Joaquín, 3) will take place the long-awaited meeting with Małgorzata Lebda, writer, scientist, Photographer, mountaineer and ultramarathon runner who has just published in Spain her latest book Insaciable with Temporal Casa Editora and the translation of Abel Murcia and Katarzyna Mołoniewicz, who will participate in the event. Free admission until capacity is full.
Two women arrive in the village of Maj, in Poland. It is a visit, and the hosts are the grandparents of one of the girls. Grandma is dying in the house of a lifetime. In Maj there are fields, foxes, starlings, forest, wind, snow, night, and there is an industrial slaughterhouse that does not rest, emissary of the city that exploits animals for human consumption. There is also a perfect transmission of knowledge that transcends and captures the history that history books tell us.
Insatiable is a geology of the living and dead. The language of the text gropes, with the delicacy of disenchantment, for the point of contact with the things it names. To speak the truth is to approach the world, to touch it with words. To read Małgorzata Lebda is to see, touch, hear a world of words that are edible.
This book, his first work in prose, received the Literary Discovery of the Year Award from Empik (2023) and was a finalist for the Nike Prize (2024). She is nominated for the Conrad Prize and is among the finalists of the Angelus Prize. The writer lives with her herd (of human and non-human animals) in the mountainous region of the Beskides of Sądecki. Grow some delicious potatoes and pumpkins.
