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Nineteen claws and a black bird : stories / Agustina Bazterrica ; translated from the Spanish by Sarah Moses.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publisher: New York : Scribner, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First Scribner trade paperback editionDescription: x, 154 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781668012666
  • 1668012669
Other title:
  • 19 claws and a black bird
Uniform titles:
  • Diecinueve garras y un pájaro oscuro. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
A light, swift, and monstrous sound -- Roberto -- Unamuno's boxes -- Candy pink -- Anita and happiness -- Dishwater -- Earth -- Perfect symmetry -- The wolf's breath -- Teicher vs. Nietzsche -- The dead -- Elena-Marie Sandoz -- The slowness of pleasure -- No tears -- The continuous equality of the circumference -- A hole hides a house -- Hell -- Architecture -- Mary Carminum -- The solitary ones.
Summary: A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision of the human experience emerges in complex, unexpected ways--often unsettling, sometimes thrilling, and always profound. In "Roberto," a girl claims to have a rabbit between her legs. A woman's neighbor jumps to his death in "A Light, Swift, and Monstrous Sound," and in "Candy Pink," a woman fails to contend with a difficult breakup in five easy steps. Written in Bazterrica's signature clever, vivid style, these stories question love, friendship, family relationships, and unspeakable desires.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction BAZTERRI AGUSTINA Checked out 07/11/2024 33111011295785
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An NPR Best Book of 2023

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh .

From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica , this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision of the human experience emerges in complex, unexpected ways--often unsettling, sometimes thrilling, and always profound. In "Roberto," a girl claims to have a rabbit between her legs. A woman's neighbor jumps to his death in "A Light, Swift, and Monstrous Sound," and in "Candy Pink," a woman fails to contend with a difficult breakup in five easy steps.

Written in Bazterrica's signature clever, vivid style, these stories question love, friendship, family relationships, and unspeakable desires.

A light, swift, and monstrous sound -- Roberto -- Unamuno's boxes -- Candy pink -- Anita and happiness -- Dishwater -- Earth -- Perfect symmetry -- The wolf's breath -- Teicher vs. Nietzsche -- The dead -- Elena-Marie Sandoz -- The slowness of pleasure -- No tears -- The continuous equality of the circumference -- A hole hides a house -- Hell -- Architecture -- Mary Carminum -- The solitary ones.

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision of the human experience emerges in complex, unexpected ways--often unsettling, sometimes thrilling, and always profound. In "Roberto," a girl claims to have a rabbit between her legs. A woman's neighbor jumps to his death in "A Light, Swift, and Monstrous Sound," and in "Candy Pink," a woman fails to contend with a difficult breakup in five easy steps. Written in Bazterrica's signature clever, vivid style, these stories question love, friendship, family relationships, and unspeakable desires.

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