Reading Which Fish Colors the Sea (Cuál es el pez que tiñe el mar) places us, from the very beginning, in a state of dislocation, of estrangement. The narrator is Clara, a young actress who travels to Japan, among other reasons, to attend a theatre residency. It is in this distance from everything familiar, and in the encounter with the other, that the inner threads of a story begin to tighten, unfolding like a revelation. With a sensorial, atmospheric prose, Antonella Saldicco guides us across time and space. Her voice emerges as if from the resonance chamber of a very ancient instrument, played in an entirely new way.
— Virginia Cosin
With humor and a rare melancholy, the author invites us on a journey where all sense of being a tourist is abandoned. Curiosity and wonder set the rhythm, interrupted by the exhaustion that comes with lived experience. We are drawn into a narrative where what feels strange is not the setting, but the meticulous gaze that observes it, where the boundary between dream and experience dissolves. Like the movements of a great octopus, the voice of the character advances, withdraws and expands again with delicate precision.
— Santiago Loza