Here Be Icebergs
Translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey.
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- Paperback published on 14/06/2022
- Page count: 130 pages
- ISBN: 9781913867195
Quick take
The weird, fetid, familiar discomfort of family is front and centre in these short stories of all the ways we remain a mystery to each other.
Synopsis
The weird, fetid, familiar discomfort of family is front and centre in these short stories of all the ways we remain a mystery to each other. The mysteries of kinship (families born into and families made) take disconcerting and familiar shapes in these refreshingly frank short stories. A family is haunted by a beast that splatters fruit against its walls every night, another undergoes a near-collision with a bus on the way home from the beach.
Mothers are cold, fathers are absent—we know these moments in the abstract, but Adaui makes each as uncanny as our own lives: close but not yet understood.
About the author
Katya Adaui is a Peruvian writer. She was born in Lima, lived in Pueblo Libre and studied journalism at Bausate y Mesa and then creative writing at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires.
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