Dogs of Summer
A sultry, simmering story of girlhood and an international sensation
(Sprache: Englisch)
Translated by Julia Sanches.
It is June and Shit is sad.
She knows she will not get to leave her neighbourhood that summer, and the beach is far, far away. And that clouds like the bottom of a donkey's belly will hover all summer over her town,...
It is June and Shit is sad.
She knows she will not get to leave her neighbourhood that summer, and the beach is far, far away. And that clouds like the bottom of a donkey's belly will hover all summer over her town,...
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Translated by Julia Sanches.It is June and Shit is sad.
She knows she will not get to leave her neighbourhood that summer, and the beach is far, far away. And that clouds like the bottom of a donkey's belly will hover all summer over her town, high among the volcanoes of northern Tenerife.
But she has a best friend, Isora. Shit likes everything about Isora. The colour of her arms and her hair and her eyes. Her handwriting and the way she writes the letter g with a huge tail. The way she calls her Shit because poop is a beautiful thing like the mist round the pines. But she envies her too. Envies her grits and gut. The way she talks to grown-ups. The fact that she has got her period and pubes on her minky.
As the summer goes on, she finds it increasingly hard to keep up with Isora - growing up at full tilt without her. When the narrator's submissiveness veers into obsession, desire becomes indistinguishable from intimate violence.
Braiding prose poetry with bachata lyrics and the gritty humour of Canary dialect, Dogs of Summer is a brutal picture of girlhood in the nineties and a story of a friendship that simmers into erotic desire over the course of one hot summer.
Autoren-Porträt von Andrea Abreu
Andrea Abreu (Tenerife, 1995) studied journalism at La Laguna University and moved to Madrid in 2017 to study a masters. Since then she has worked as an intern, a waitress and a clerk for a prestigious lingerie brand. As a journalist she is a regular contributor for Tentaciones-El País, LOLA (BuzzFeed), Vice, Zenda and Quimera, among others. Her debut novel, Panza de Burro, was first published in Spain to great acclaim. In 2021, Andrea Abreu has been included in Granta's new selection in a decade of the Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists. Julia Sanches translates literature from Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan.
From Portuguese, she has translated Now and at the Hour of Our Death by Susana Moreira Marques; from Catalan, the forthcoming Permafrost by Eva Baltasar; and from Spanish, Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernández, for which she won a PEN/Heim award. Sanches has also translated works by Noemi Jaffe, Daniel Galera, and Geovani Martins, among others. She is a founding member of the Cedilla & Co. translators' collective. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, she currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Andrea Abreu
- 2022, 176 Seiten, Maße: 13,4 x 21,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzer: Julia Sanches
- Verlag: Orion Publishing Group
- ISBN-10: 1474624073
- ISBN-13: 9781474624077
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.08.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Bold, dazzling, hilarious. Andrea Abreu is a lively meteorite in the landscape of Hispanic Literature Fernanda Melchor, author of International Booker-shortlisted Hurricane Season
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