La perra / The Bitch

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Pub. Date: 2018-02-27
Publisher(s): Literatura Random House
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Summary

IV PREMIO BIBLIOTECA DE NARRATIVA COLOMBIANA

Finalista del National Book Award 2020

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


En un pequeño pueblo del Pacífico donde confluyen la belleza y la violencia de la región y conviven, separados, la riqueza y la pobreza, los blancos y los negros, tiene lugar la historia de Damaris.

Damaris, una negra del Pacífico ya en la madurez, lleva muchos años viviendo con Rogelio. Su turbulenta relación ha estado marcada por la búsqueda infructuosa de un hijo: prueban de todo, y aun así Damaris no consigue quedarse embarazada. Perdida toda esperanza, Damaris encuentra una nueva ilusión cuando se le presenta la oportunidad de adoptar una perra. Esta nueva e intensa relación con el animal será para Damaris la experiencia que la obligará a reflexionar sobre el instinto y la maternidad.


ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

FINALIST FOR THE  NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE 2020

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 Vásquez, 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.

Author Biography

Pilar Quintana ha publicado tres novelas: Cosquillas en la lengua (Planeta, 2003), Coleccionistas de polvos raros (Norma, 2007) y Conspiración iguana (Norma, 2009), y la colección de cuentos Caperucita se come al lobo (Cuneta, 2012). En 2007 fue seleccionada por el Hay Festival entre los 39 escritores menores de 39 años más destacados de Latinoamérica. En 2010 recibió el VIII Premio de Novela La Mar de Letras por Coleccionistas de polvos raros. En 2011 participó en el International Writing Program de la Universidad de Iowa como escritora residente y en 2012 en el International Writers Workshop de la Universidad Bautista de Hong Kong como escritora visitante. En 2013 ganó un estímulo del Fondo de Cinematografía para escritura de guion para largometraje por su proyecto Lavaperros, escrito en colaboración con Antonio García Ángel. En 2016 ganó un estímulo de la convocatoria Pasantías Nacionales del Ministerio de Cultura por su proyecto La isla cuenta. Sus cuentos han sido traducidos a varios idiomas y han aparecido en revistas y antologías de América Latina, España, Italia, Alemania, Estados Unidos y China. Dicta talleres de escritura creativa.

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