Selva Almada

• Jul-2019
• / Literary
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A taut, lyrical portrait of four people thrown together on a single day in rural ArgentinaThe Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is evangelizing across the Argentinian countryside with Leni, his teenage da...

• Sep-2020
• / General Fiction
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In this brutal, gripping novel, Selva Almada narrates the case of three small-town teenage girls murdered in the 1980’s in the interior of Argentina, through the eyes of another teenage girl that can’t help but think ‘Am I safe?’. Three de...

• Nov-2021
• / Literary
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A piercing and passionate novel, set in rural Argentina, about violence and masculinityOscar Tamai and Elvio Miranda, the patriarchs of two families of brickmakers, have for years nursed a mutual hatred, but their teenage sons, Pájaro and Ángelito,...

• May-2024
• / Literary
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It’s not a river, it’s this river.A hot, motionless afternoon. Enero and El Negro are fishing with Tilo, their dead friend’s teenage son. After hours of struggling with a hooked stingray, Enero aims his revolver into the water and shoots it. Th...