In Pronto seré de oro y carmín (Soon I Will Be Gold and Carmine), Vanina Bruc has crafted a radiant literary mosaic of queer, trans, drag, and otherwise dissident lives, characters whose very existence resists normalization. With tender prose and hallucinatory precision, Bruc immerses readers in an expansive and unruly cosmos populated by the alienated and the extraordinary: housewives disenchanted with domesticity, theatre lovers in provincial towns, cosmic pharaohs, spectral drag queens, and witches rising into their own power.
This is a book that doesn’t whisper its resistance, it sings it in gold and carmine, with a voice as brave as it is lyrical.
Published by the audacious Spanish publisher Dos Bigotes, Pronto seré de oro y carmín defies easy categorization. It reads like a collection of short stories, but the pieces are stitched together by a shared spirit of defiance and illumination. Each narrative is a portal into an interior world colored by fear, desire, confusion, and yearning. This is not simply a book about gender or sexuality, it is a book about refusal, about disobedience, and about the beauty that grows in the cracks of conformity.
The magic of Pronto seré de oro y carmín lies in its unapologetic embrace of fluidity, of identity, of genre, of narrative logic.
