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Let’s Save the Fire
-ALFAGUARA NOVEL AWARD 2020 From the Oscar-winning screenwriter of ‘Babel’, ‘21 Grams’ and ‘Amores Perros’, a harrowing love story filled with fear and rage, set against the backdrop of a violently divided Mexico.
Marina, a married mother of three and a well-known choreographer, unexpectedly becomes involved with a completely unsuitable man. Sentenced to prison for the murder of his father, José is a wild beast always ready to attack. An untamed lion in a cage. Their relationship will gradually plunge her into a brutal world ablaze with raw violence. With tremendous intensity and a gripping, fast-paced rhythm, *Let Us Save the Fire* depicts the dangerous contradictions of a country, as well as the division within human nature between condemnation and redemption. Through multiple narrative voices, imaginative techniques and striking literary daring, Ariaga delivers one of the most compelling novels of the last decade.
- Pages: 992
- ISBN: 978-960-572-827-4
- Publication: 2026
- Date of publication: 20/04/2026
- Dimensions: 13.3 x 20.5 εκ.
- Categories: Literature, Books, Foreign Literature
Guillermo Arriaga
Guillermo Arriaga was born in Mexico City in 1958. He is an award-winning author and screenwriter. He has written six novels and a collection of short stories. In 2005, he won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival for the screenplay of Melquiades Estrada’s film The Three Burials. He is the screenwriter of the films Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel, for which he was nominated for an Oscar. His literary work has been translated into twenty-two languages. In 2020, he won the Alfaguara Prize for the novel Saving the Fire.
