Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, Germany’s most prestigious award for young adult literature. She is the first Latin American author to win it.

Every weekend, Alma goes with her parents to their house in Tigre Delta. There she meets Carmen and Marito, two siblings who live with their grandmother in a modest house.

Their adventures in Delta, the awakening of love, and the end of innocence bring them closer together, beyond social and economic differences.

A novel that accompanies a young woman in her transition to adulthood: disagreement with her family, the search for her own identity, and the ominous reality she awakens to one day and from which there is no return.

A story of impossible loves and dreams lost in the murky waters of the river.

A special book that makes you feel very compassionate, which should be enough reason to dig deeper in the recent history of Argentina. Maria Frisé, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

It drags you like the Paraná river. Maren Keller, Spiegel

In this masterpiece, coming of age, Inés Garland lets the main character do the talking hersel. Jochen Weber, Süddeutsche Zeitung

Garland portrays adolescence with gentle harshness, a mixture of nostalgia, lucidity, and pain that only someone with enormous narrative sensitivity can sustain without falling into stereotypes. El Diario de Tandil

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