Breviarios, by Juan Carlos Quiñones, is a new edition that includes his 2002 award-winning Breviario (previously published by Isla Negra, and recipient of the Premio Pen Club de Puerto Rico), and his 2026 Nuevo Breviario, published by Editorial blanco & Staccato.

Fellow Puerto Rican author Pedro Cabiya writes: “One of the book’s primary gravitational centers is the island. But not the postcard-perfect island, nor the island as a tourist destination, nor even the island understood solely as a geographical territory. In these pages, the island is an ontological condition: a place of transit and confinement, of origin and escape, a coastline and a prison, a cemetery and a laboratory, a threatened memory and a machine for generating ghosts. The island emerges as a boundless prison — a space where stories are erased only to return in distorted forms, where lives can be exchanged, appropriated, forged, or submerged beneath the surface. In this sense, Quiñones’s writing partakes in a profoundly Caribbean imagination: it recognizes that, on islands, history is never still, never fully written, and never entirely belongs to those who claim to possess it.”

Juan Carlos Quiñones: Also known by the pen name Bruno Soreno, Juan Carlos Quiñones was born in 1972. He pursued postgraduate studies in Comparative Literature. He has received awards in various literary competitions and has had his work published in several print journals— in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Argentina, and the United States— as well as in various online publications. His work is also featured in local and international anthologies, including Antología de cuento latinoamericano del siglo XXI (edited by Julio Ortega and published by Siglo Veintiuno), Mal(h)ablar (edited by Mayra Santos Febles), and Ojo paralelo: antología de escritores dominicanos y puertorriqueños. Among his other books are short story collections, children’s books, and novels, including El libro del tapiz iluminado (2009), Adelaida recupera su peluche (2011), Todos los nombres el nombre (2012), Bar Schopenhauer (2015), and El libro de las apariencias (2025).

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