Not a River by Almada, Selva

Not a River

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE * It's not a river, it's this river. A...
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Author: Selva Almada
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Not a River by Almada, Selva

Not a River

$24.34

Not a River

$24.34
Author: Selva Almada
Format: Paperback
Language: English

* 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. They hang the ray's enormous corpse from a tree at their campsite and let it go to rot, drawing the attention of some local islanders and igniting a long-simmering fury toward outsiders and their carelessness. It's only the two sisters--the teenage nieces of one of the locals, Aguirre--with their hair black as cowbird feathers and giving off the scent of green grass, who are curious about the trio and invite them to a dance. But the girls are not quite as they seem. As night approaches and tensions rise, Enero and El Negro return to the charged memories of their friend who years ago drowned in this same river.

As uneasy and saturated as a prophetic dream, Not a River is another extraordinary novel by Selva Almada about masculinity, guilt, and irrepressible desire, written in a style that is spare and timeless.

Author: Selva Almada
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 05/07/2024
Pages: 104
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781644452851


Award: Man Booker International Prize - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/29/2024
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2024

About the Author

Selva Almada is the author of Brickmakers, Dead Girls, and The Wind That Lays Waste. She is considered one of the most potent literary voices in Argentina and Latin America.

Annie McDermott is the translator of a dozen books from Spanish and Portuguese. She was awarded the Premio Valle Inclán and her translation of Brickmakers by Selva Almada was shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.

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