Name: Abyss
SKU: 54495691
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Author: Pilar Quintana

Type

Physical Book

Author

Pilar Quintana

Publisher

World Editions

Year

2023

Language

English

Pages

168

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20x12 cm

Weight

0.26 kg.

ISBN13

9781642861228

Synopsis "Abyss "

A 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE FINALIST

By the Colombian author of The Bitch, a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and PEN Awards Winner

“An eight-year-old girl takes in a series of troubling events in this luminous and transfixing account of fractured family life from Colombian writer Quintana (The Bitch). Readers will be dazzled.” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW

Claudia is an impressionable eight-year-old girl, trying to understand the world through the eyes of the adults around her. But her hardworking father hardly speaks a word, while her unhappy mother spends her days reading celebrity lifestyle magazines, tending to her enormous collection of plants, and filling Claudia’s head with stories about women who end their lives in tragic ways. Then an interloper arrives, disturbing the delicate balance of family life, and Claudia’s world starts falling apart. In this strikingly vivid portrait of Cali, Colombia, Claudia’s acute observations remind us that children are capable of discerning extremely complex realities even if they cannot fully understand them. In Abyss, Quintana leads us brilliantly into the lonely heart of the child we have all once been, driven by fear of abandonment.

Pilar Quintana

(Author)

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She is the author of five novels and a short story book, Little Red Riding Hood Eats the Wolf. Dust Collectors of Rare Kinds won the La Mar de Letras Novel Award in Spain. The Bitch, translated into twenty languages, was on the long list for the Dublin Literary Award, was a finalist for the National Novel Award and the National Book Award in the United States, and won the Colombian Narrative Library Award, an English PEN Translates Award, and the LiBeraturpreis in Germany. The Abysses won the 2021 Alfaguara Novel Prize and is being translated into multiple languages. She is the editor of the Library of Colombian Women Writers, a project of the Ministry of Culture to rescue and promote women's literature.

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