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These eleven stories combine gritty surrealism with explosive interior meditations, traversing the fickle, often terrifying terrain between madness and freedom. In the title story, a so-called “non-inventor” brings snow-white rabbits to an island inhabited exclusively by birds, with horrific results. More about this book >
Christina MacSweeney is an award-winning literary translator. In addition to her work with Jazmina Barrera and Elvira Navarro, she has translated works by such authors as Valeria Luiselli, Daniel Saldaña París, Julián Herbert, and Karla Suárez. She has also contributed to various anthologies of Latin American literature. In recent years, her translation of Jazmina Barrera’s Cross-Stitch was shortlisted for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize, Elvira Navarro’s Rabbit Island: Stories was Longlisted for a National Book Award, and Clyo Mendoza’s Fury was shortlisted for the Valle Inclán Translation Prize.
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