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Not a river : a novel / Selva Almada ; translated from the Spanish by Annie McDermott.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Snack Almada Not
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Almada, Selva, 1973- author.
- Standardized Title:
- No es un río. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rivers--Argentina--Fiction.
- Rivers.
- Country life--Argentina--Fiction.
- Country life.
- Love--Fiction.
- Love.
- Mother and child--Fiction.
- Mother and child.
- Brothers--Fiction.
- Brothers.
- Argentina--Fiction.
- Argentina.
- Spanish fiction--Translations into English.
- Spanish fiction.
- Genre:
- Fishing stories.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 87 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2024.
- Language Note:
- Translated from Spanish.
- Summary:
- "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. They hang the ray's enormous corpse from a tree at their campsite and let it go to rot, drawing the attention of some local islanders and igniting a long-simmering fury toward outsiders and their carelessness. It's only the two sisters--the teenage nieces of one of the locals, Aguirre--with their hair black as cowbird feathers and giving off the scent of green grass, who are curious about the trio and invite them to a dance. But the girls are not quite as they seem. As night approaches and tensions rise, Enero and El Negro return to the charged memories of their friend who years ago drowned in this same river. As uneasy and saturated as a prophetic dream, Not a River is another extraordinary novel by Selva Almada about masculinity, guilt, and irrepressible desire, written in a style that is spare and timeless"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Spanish as No es un río by Penguin Random House, Buenos Aires"--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Joan Detz.
- ISBN:
- 1644452855
- 9781644452851
- OCLC:
- 1393205031
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