CASTLE BOOK CLUB+/Meeting about the book “The Indestructible Summer of Liliana” by Cristina Rivera Garza

TypeLiterature

VenueMeeting room (collection in front of Bookowski bookstore)

Hour

18

Datum 20.10.2026

Information about tickets

prior registration applies: literatura@ckzamek.pl

LITERARY MEETING

The book “The Indestructible Summer of Liliana” by Cristina

Rivery Garza (trans. Aleksandra Wiktorowska, ArtRage) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize 2024 in the category of memories. On

we invite you to meet the author at CK ZAMEK 24 October at 18. A

before, on October 20, we will talk about the book in the circle of female readers and

Readers of Castle Book Clubs +.

16 July 1990 victim of femicide

Liliana Rivera Garza died. A young twenty-year-old girl, a student

architecture, killed in Mexico City her ex-partner, a boyfriend she met

still in high school and who wouldn't let her go. Cristina Rivera

Garza, a Mexican novelist, decides to tell the story of Liliana,

of her sister, who, like so many other women, did not live to see

justice. Balancing on the border of fiction and nonfiction,

the author analyzes the notes, talks with her sister's friends and loved ones,

gets acquainted with the extensive literature on violence against women, and all

to reconstruct the life of a brilliant and courageous girl and write her

History in a broader socio-cultural context.

“Indestructible

Summer of Liliana” is above all

a story about love, life and the struggle against an oppressive system that has been persecuting for years

women. Patriarchy. (publisher's description)

The book was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in the memoir category. She was included in the final of the National Book Award in the category

nonfiction. She won the Rodolfo Walsh Prize, the Literary Award

Mazatlán, Xavier Villaurrutia Award granted by the association

“Writers for Writers”, Alfonso Reyes Prize of the State of Nuevo León,

The José Donoso Ibero-American Literary Prize.

The book was published in Poland in

September 2026, translated by Aleksandra Wiktorowska, in the publishing house

ArtRage.

hosted by: Violetta Szostak

Duration: 90'/ Age: 18+

CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA (b. 1964)

— Mexican writer, author of novels, essays, poems, translations and texts

critical-literary. International recognition was brought to her by the novel “Nobody

will see my tears” (1999), which Carlos Fuentes called one of

the most outstanding works of Spanish-language literature of the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Winner of numerous literary awards, including twice the Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. It belongs to El Colegio Nacional,

prestigious Mexican institution that brings together the most outstanding figures of the world

science and culture. Since 1989 he has lived and created in the United States. Profesora

of literature and founder of the creative writing program in Spanish at

University of Houston.