Name: The Bitch
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Author: Pilar Quintana

Type

Physical Book

Author

Pilar Quintana

Translated by

Lisa Dillman

Publisher

World Editions

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1x12.4x1.5 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9781642860597

Synopsis "The Bitch "

2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS TRANSLATED LITERATURE FINALIST In Colombia's brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy. "The magic of this sparse novel is its ability to talk about many things, all of them important, while seemingly talking about something else entirely. What are those things? Violence, loneliness, resilience, cruelty. Quintana works wonders with her disillusioned, no-nonsense, powerful prose." Juan Gabriel Vásquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling "The Bitch is a novel of true violence. Artist that she is, Pilar Quintana uncovers wounds we didn't know we had, shows us their beauty, and then throws a handful of salt into them." Yuri Herrera, author of Signs Preceding the End of the World Colombia's Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. In this constant struggle, nothing is taken for granted. Damaris lives with her fisherman husband in a shack on a bluff overlooking the sea. Childless and at that age "when women dry up," as her uncle puts it, she is eager to adopt an orphaned puppy. But this act may bring more than just affection into her home. The Bitch is written in a prose as terse as the villagers, with storms―both meteorological and emotional―lurking around each corner. Beauty and dread live side by side in this poignant exploration of the many meanings of motherhood and love.

Pilar Quintana

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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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