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Pilar Quintana
Abyss
- World Editions
- 2023
- Taschenbuch
- 226 Seiten
- ISBN 9781642861228
- Lead title of Fall 2022 * The author's most recent novel, La perra / The Bitch , received the prestigious Colombian Biblioteca de Narrativa Award in 2018, the PEN Award in 2020, was shortlisted for the National Book Award in Translated Literature 2020, and is being translated in fourteen countries. In addition, the audiovisual rights have been sold for film and video * The Bitch received a ton of press, including a starred PW review , and reviews in Vox, Foreword Reviews, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot and Harvard Review . * We had fantastic quotes from authors with excellent US sales records for The Bitch, and expect the same for Abyss. Likely quote givers are #1 Mexican writer Yuri Herrera, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Leila Slimani, Mariana Enriquez, Gabriela Alemán * Pilar is fantastic at events. Her English is flawless and she has the most fascinating things to say. The interest in Pilar Quintana has steadily increased since she was selected as a National Book Awards Finalist. She's had multiple events since, including at the Toronto Public Library and Vancouver Literary Festival, the Miami Book Fair, The Hay Forum Dallas in Houston and at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where she was awarded the Liberaturpreis 2021 * The Spanish original of Abyss (Los Abismos) was published in Spanish on March 25th and won the Premio Alfaguarra 2021 * The Alfaguara Novel Prize (Spanish: Premio Alfaguara de Novela) is a Spanish-language literary award. The award is one of the most prestigious in the Spanish language. It includes a prize of US$175,000 (about EUR133,306) making it one of
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the richest literary prizes in the world * Los Abismos has been covered in national media around the world, including in the Star Tribune and on ABC News , and in The Guardian * With extraordinary perception and sensitivity, a young girl reflects on her parents' troubled marriage and tries to construct her reality by predicting, guessing or interpreting what is not said, and what is half said * Claudia has what she considers a normal life in Calí, a carefree childhood like so many others, because all happy families are alike. But since each family is unhappy in their own way, there comes a time when, suddenly, someone from the outside enters the equation, destroying all perceived harmony * With a background of the small female universe comprising well-to-do women for whom it is impossible to break from the customs and mold of a previous time, Pilar Quintana has constructed an intimate novel, with a narrative voice dazzling in its naivety
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