The machine is a visceral and poetic descent into the layered textures of a woman’s existence under capitalist collapse. Authored by award-winning novelist and poet, the Uruguayan/Swedish author Lalo Barrubia. Written in hybrid form that oscillates between fragmented narrative and performative poetry, the book captures the raw, corporeal dimensions of life on the margins. It explores themes of migration, systemic violence, environmental decay, feminized resistanve and the absurdities of bureaucratic and capitalist systems.

A Red Press publication, with translations and illustrations by Elizabeth Torres, published with the support of the Uruguayan Book Chamber.