Cristian Cristian Piscitelli
Argentine author. Rural psychological thriller. Gothic realism.
Universo Quemado (Burned Universe)
Four elements. One temperature. Not a linear saga, but a constellation of works where fire works as image, symbol and structure of meaning. The flame that strikes, the smoke that conceals, the ash that testifies, the ember that never quite dies out. Each book is a different combustion.
The Books
The Burned Tavern
In the Nueva Plata of the 1960s, a tavern burns down. The town remembers without speaking, denies without forgetting, and keeps under the ash a truth no one wants to say out loud.
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Contexto Quemado
Ten short stories that burn
Ten stories. Ten doorways. Each one a threshold where pain never shows itself outright, but keeps breathing underneath.
The Burned Tavern · Excerpt
In that tavern, every night was a silent pact between those who crossed its threshold. Out there, it didn't matter who you were — only what you were trying to forget.
The glasses filled with thick wine, with harsh gin, but also with unspoken words, with stories that stayed trapped in cigarette smoke.
It was a place where restless souls found a moment of peace, or an excuse to let go.But that comfort came with a price: silence.
What readers are saying (original reviews, Spanish edition)
"Es atrapante desde el inicio y a medida que avanza la trama cambia completamente el panorama. La descripción tan rica de personajes, ambiente y suceso permiten poder imaginarse cada escena, como estar viendo una película. Super recomendado."
"Uno de los mejores libros de drama y misterio. Sientes cada personaje, cada lugar, cada situación como si estuvieras dentro de la historia. Cada evento totalmente inesperado. 100% recomendado para quienes incluso no son fanáticos del género."
"Si estás buscando que un libro te estremezca, te conmueva y te sacuda hasta el alma, es éste. Maravilloso, una historia impactante; te deja ese sabor amargo de cuestionar si realmente todo es ficción o algo de verdad ocurrió."
In my stories, silence is never absence.
It's the most dangerous character.
Audio
El Boliche Quemado and Contexto Quemado, narrated in Spanish by Sebastián Cabello. A free sample of each book. Full audiobooks (Spanish) are included with the purchase.
Videos
Official booktrailers for El Boliche Quemado and Contexto Quemado.
Pieces of the Universo Quemado.
Argentine author of rural psychological thriller
Argentine author born in Chacabuco, raised in Daireaux and based in Pehuajó. His work is built from the Buenos Aires pampas: family silences, symbolic violence, emotional memory and accumulated guilt.
He doesn't write from the friendly rural postcard, but from its reverse side: what the town hides, what the family disguises, what public morality orders everyone to keep quiet.
Next book
After El Boliche Quemado and Contexto Quemado, the author keeps expanding his narrative universe: towns marked by silence, characters carrying guilt, rural atmospheres, psychological tension, and that intimate darkness where the everyday starts turning unsettling.
The new book is currently in the writing and editorial development stage. It will be a work true to his literary identity: deep, symbolic, uncomfortable and emotionally intense.
Previews, excerpts, concept art and updates on the creative process will be shared soon.