Results for "Almada, Selva"

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE *It’s not a river, it’s this river.A hot, motionless afternoon. Enero and El Negro are fishing with Tilo, their dead friend’s teenage son. After hours of struggling with a hooked stingray, Enero aims his revolver into the water and shoots it. The... Read More about Not a River: A Novel

A piercing and passionate novel, set in rural Argentina, about violence and masculinityOscar Tamai and Elvio Miranda, the patriarchs of two families of brickmakers, have for years nursed a mutual hatred, but their teenage sons, Pájaro and Ángelito, somehow fell in love. Brickmakers begins as Pájaro ... Read More about Brickmakers: A Novel

A taut, lyrical portrait of four people thrown together on a single day in rural ArgentinaThe Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is evangelizing across the Argentinian countryside with Leni, his teenage daughter, when their car breaks down. This act of Go... Read More about The Wind That Lays Waste: A Novel

Author of International Booker Finalist Not a River Internationally acclaimed author of Not a River, Selva Almada tackles the issue of gender violence in this hybrid work that follows in the tradition of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood or John Hersey's Hiroshima .Evoking with intimate first-hand knowl... Read More about Dead Girls

Finalista del Booker Internacional 2024.Finalista de la IV Bienal de Novela Vargas Llosa Ubicada en la Argentina rural, No es un río indaga en la crueldad y la violencia del universo masculino a través de los pactos y las alianzas secretas entre hombres.Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo ... Read More about No es un río / Not a River (MAPA DE LAS LENGUAS)

La llegada de un predicador y su hija al taller de un mecánico y su ayudante en medio del monte chaqueño bajo el sol abrasador anuncia cambios y tormentas.El calor agobia en el monte chaqueño. ¿Lloverá? Varados por una falla mecánica, el reverendo Pearson y su hija Leni esperan pacientes que el Grin... Read More about El viento que arrasa / The Wind That Lays Waste (MAPA DE LAS LENGUAS)