Critiques en avant-premièreOrlando Ortega-Medina

Urban magical realism novel for fans of Haruki Murakami, Toni Morrison, and Junot Diaz Deserted by his father at the age of four and raised by his voodoo queen mother on the fringes of Skid Row, Los Angeles street artist Virgilio Santos believes it his mission to save the down-and-outers in his neighbourhood. But when he crosses paths with Beatrice Schein, an alluring Westside art collector with an aim to promote him to the international art world, Virgilio is tempted to turn his back on his friends. That is, until he discovers that Beatrice’s father is the principal financier of organized crime in his neighbourhood with plans to tear it all down for redevelopment. Rendered with urgent intensity, The Savior of 6th Street is a literary tour de force that confirms Orlando Ortega-Medina as one of the most original storytellers of our time. “Gritty and unexpected...The Savior of 6th Street is Orlando Ortega-Medina's lucid and engrossing new novel about a man who grows up in Los Angeles's dark, 1980s underworld" -Foreword Reviews

Urban magical realism novel for fans of Haruki Murakami, Toni Morrison, and Junot Diaz Deserted by his father at the age of four and raised by his voodoo queen mother on the fringes of Skid Row, LA street artist Virgilio Santos believes it his mission to save the down-and-outers in his neighborhood. But when he crosses paths with Beatrice Schein, an alluring Westside art collector with an aim to promote him to the international art world, Virgilio is tempted to turn his back on his friends. That is, until he discovers that Beatrice’s father is the principal financier of organized crime in his neighborhood with plans to tear it all down for redevelopment. “Rendered with urgent intensity, The Savior of 6th Street is a literary tour de force that confirms Orlando Ortega-Medina as one of the most original storytellers of our time.”

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2017 Fascinating literary short stories for fans of Yukio Mishima, Philip Roth, and Junot Diaz Voice Actor Paul Hikari vividly brings to life Orlando Ortega-Medina's eclectic work of dark fiction in this special audiobook version of Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions. Ortega-Medina’s characters are flawed, broken individuals, trying their best to make sense of their lives as they struggle with sexuality, death, obsession, and religion. Sometimes bleak, occasionally violent, and often possessed of a dark humor, this major debut explores the imperfections of life and the unpredictability of death. Praise for Jerusalem Ablaze: “[B]eautifully wrought, deeply unnerving...Ortega-­Medina holds a mirror up to our darkest thoughts and urges -­‐ while showing the oneness of the human condition” –The Irish News “[Ortega-­Medina] is at his best at his most explosive – and the wilder the better. I felt the emergence of an exciting, original talent.” –Jewish Renaissance "Ortega-Medina's prose is elegant and potent throughout, with visceral passages bathed in lyricism." —Kirkus Reviews “Atmospheric and enticingly mysterious” –Christopher Fowler