β Scribed by Pilar Quintana
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LONGLISTED FOR 2020 THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE In Colombiaβs brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy. βThe 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.β Juan Gabriel VΓ‘squez , author of The Sound of Things Falling β The Bitch is a novel of true violence. Artist that she is, Pilar Quintana uncovers wounds we didnβt know we had, shows us their beauty, and then throws a handful of salt into them.β Yuri Herrera , author of Signs Preceding the End of the World Colombiaβs 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 βwhen women dry up,β 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 stormsβboth meteorological and emotionalβlurking around each corner. Beauty and dread live side by side in this poignant exploration of the many meanings of motherhood and love. **
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