{"id":17115,"date":"2026-07-03T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fantasticaficcion.com\/?p=17115"},"modified":"2026-06-25T06:45:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:45:38","slug":"cubierta-y-sinopsis-de-the-twelfth-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasticaficcion.com\/index.php\/cubierta-y-sinopsis-de-the-twelfth-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubierta y sinopsis de The Twelfth House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Si hay algo que caracteriza a Erewhon Books es lo ecl\u00e9ctico de su cat\u00e1logo. Pues el 25 de agosto a\u00f1adir\u00e1n una nueva muesca con The Twelfth House<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, de Robert de la Chevotiere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Esta es la sinopsis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The vengeful spirit of an unborn child draws her father from the Bight of Biafra onto a slave ship bound for the harshly colonized Caribbean island of Dominica in this lush historical novel infused with magical realism and rooted in West African mythology for readers of Ta-Nehisi Coates\u2019 The Water Dancer <\/em>and River Sing Me Home <\/em>by Eleanor Shearer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Etta is an ogbanje<\/em>, an unborn soul trapped in a cycle of conception and death in the wombs of one family. A gifted siren in the twelfth house of the zodiac\u2014the house of secrets, of dreams, and of death\u2014her voice unleashes ethereal songs that consume listeners with fear. Her desperate desire to live compels her father, Bako, into the hands of his captors of the coast of 18th-century Benin and carries him on a harrowing journey across the Atlantic to enslavement on a sugarcane plantation in Dominica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bako\u2019s defiant spirit\u2014and Etta\u2019s fervent wish to be born\u2014soon lead him to escape into the mountains. There, he has a fateful encounter with the Kalinaga woman named Mary who will ensure Etta\u2019s birth into the mortal world. But the child Etta bears physical scars of her many spiritual deaths, bringing her father to suspect the truth of his daughter\u2019s origins. As the landowners and tradesmen who enslave Etta\u2019s people feel her wrath and inflame rebellion, Bako fears it is the rebellion within which is the gravest.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

La traducci\u00f3n:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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El esp\u00edritu vengativo de una ni\u00f1a por nacer arrastra a su padre desde el Golfo de Biafra hasta un barco de esclavos con destino a la isla caribe\u00f1a de Dominica, duramente colonizada. Esta exuberante novela hist\u00f3rica, impregnada de realismo m\u00e1gico y arraigada en la mitolog\u00eda de \u00c1frica Occidental, es ideal para lectores de The Water Dancer<\/em> de Ta-Nehisi Coates y River Sing Me Home<\/em> de Eleanor Shearer. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Etta es una ogbanje, un alma por nacer atrapada en un ciclo de concepci\u00f3n y muerte en el vientre de una familia. Una sirena con un don especial, propia de la duod\u00e9cima casa del zod\u00edaco \u2014la casa de los secretos, los sue\u00f1os y la muerte\u2014, su voz desata cantos et\u00e9reos que envuelven a quienes la escuchan con terror. Su desesperado deseo de vivir obliga a su padre, Bako, a caer en manos de sus captores en la costa del Ben\u00edn del siglo XVIII, llev\u00e1ndolo en un angustioso viaje a trav\u00e9s del Atl\u00e1ntico hasta la esclavitud en una plantaci\u00f3n de ca\u00f1a de az\u00facar en Dominica. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

El esp\u00edritu desafiante de Bako \u2014y el ferviente deseo de Etta de nacer\u2014 pronto lo llevan a escapar a las monta\u00f1as. All\u00ed, tiene un encuentro fat\u00eddico con una mujer kalinaga llamada Mar\u00eda, quien asegurar\u00e1 el nacimiento de Etta al mundo mortal. Pero la ni\u00f1a Etta lleva cicatrices f\u00edsicas de sus numerosas muertes espirituales, lo que hace que su padre sospeche la verdad sobre los or\u00edgenes de su hija. Mientras los terratenientes y comerciantes que esclavizan al pueblo de Etta sienten su ira e incitan a la rebeli\u00f3n, Bako teme que sea la rebeli\u00f3n interior la m\u00e1s grave.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Esta es la cubierta:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Si hay algo que caracteriza a Erewhon Books es lo ecl\u00e9ctico de su cat\u00e1logo. Pues el 25 de agosto a\u00f1adir\u00e1n una nueva muesca con The Twelfth House, de Robert de la Chevotiere. Esta es la sinopsis: The vengeful spirit of an unborn child draws her father from the Bight of Biafra onto a slave ship … <\/p>\n

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