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Controversy and debate caused a complaint by the journalist Alejandra Matus on social networks, where she assured that the supermarket chain Jumbo refused to sell the collective’s first book Theses.
“Jumbo Supermarkets refused to distribute in their stores the book ‘Burning fear’, from Las Tesis, published by Planeta”The journalist wrote on her Twitter account, in a message that quickly went viral.
Jumbo Supermarkets refused to distribute the book “Burning fear”, from Las Tesis, published by Planeta.
– alejandra matus (@alejandramatus) March 23, 2021
On social media, the tweet has become one of the most talked about topics of the day, sparking a debate for and against the measure.
In the anteroom of the International Women’s Day, the porteño collective made its editorial debut with a launch that was echoed not only in Latin America, but in much of the world.
“Burn the fear” (Planeta 2021) was released simultaneously in bookstores in all Spanish-speaking countries, with publishing rights that were already acquired in Germany and the United States even before its general sale.
“We choose art as resistance. We have been persecuted and violated for saying what we think. We take care of each other. We know that, in part, we have had the luck and the privileges that others and others have not, because we are alive ”, write the four members: Daffne Valdés Vargas, Paula Cometa Stange, Lea Cáceres Díaz and Sibila Sotomayor Van Rysseghem.
“We refuse to continue being accomplices of all kinds of violence, oppression and patriarchal injustice; the same one that we will present to you in this book ”, they add by way of introduction to the title, described by themselves as a“ manifesto ”.
After Matus’ complaint about the distribution of “Burning fear”, BioBioChile made contact with Cencosud, multinational consortium that controls the supermarket chain, from which they specified that “Jumbo will not make any statements in this regard.”
From Editorial Planeta, for its part, the seal responsible for the publication of the book, they confirm that this It was not coded by Jumbo, and it is not available today at its branches. In other words, it is not part of their catalog.
Apart from this controversy, the title continues to be one of the most sought after in the local industry.
In the ranking of the El Mercurio Book Magazine, dependent on the Arts and Letters supplement of the same newspaper, between March 12 and 18 “Quemar el Fear” was ranked as the seventh best-selling non-fiction book.
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