Pre-Owned La Perra / The Bitch (Paperback) 9588979730 9789588979731

IV PREMIO BIBLIOTECA DE NARRATIVA COLOMBIANA

Finalista del National Book Award 2020

Nominada para el Dublin Literary Award

La perra es una novela sobre el amor de las madres, la traici?n, la lealtad, la culpa y la soledad de las relaciones humanas.

En un peque?o pueblo del Pac?fico donde confluyen la belleza y la violencia de la regi?n y conviven, separados, la riqueza y la pobreza, los blancos y los negros, tiene lugar la historia de Damaris.

Damaris, una negra del Pac?fico ya en la madurez, lleva muchos a?os viviendo con Rogelio. Su turbulenta relaci?n ha estado marcada por la b?squeda infructuosa de un hijo: prueban de todo, y aun as? Damaris no consigue quedarse embarazada. Perdida toda esperanza, Damaris encuentra una nueva ilusi?n cuando se le presenta la oportunidad de adoptar una perra. Esta nueva e intensa relaci?n con el animal ser? para Damaris la experiencia que la obligar? a reflexionar sobre el instinto y la maternidad.

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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE 2020

LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD

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 V?squez, 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.