{"title":"Pilar Adón","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePilar Adón\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was born in Madrid in 1971 and is the author of four novels, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mayflies\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(forthcoming from Open Letter), several short story collection, and four volumes of poetry. She received the Ojo Critico Prize for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eViajes inocentes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and won the Premio Francisco Umbral al Libro del Año, Premio Cálamo, and the Premio de la Critica for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf Beasts and Fowls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"of-beasts-and-fowls","title":"Of Beasts and Fowls","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eNovember 5, 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 220 pgs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\" color=\"#b45f06\" data-mce-style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-960385-17-8\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/tip-sheet\/article\/79827-pw-picks-books-of-the-week-april-22-2019.html\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/tip-sheet\/article\/79827-pw-picks-books-of-the-week-april-22-2019.html\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWinner of Spain’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePremio Nacional\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e de Narrativa in 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A funerary poem about a bird flying underground; a psychodrama of two sisters drowning in the mirror of memory; a center of a necrophilic labyrinth; Virginia Woolf’s Rhoda lost in John Hawkes’s \u003ci\u003eTravesty\u003c\/i\u003e. Pilar Adon’s novel is the most haunting I have read in years.”—Mircea Cărtărescu, winner of the Dublin Literary Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"A3\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSummer is ending and Coro, an artist frightened of what her paintings of her dead sister may represent, gets in her car one night and starts to drive, with no plan or destination. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter a wrong turn down a narrow dirt road, s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"A3\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehe runs out of gas outside the gates of a large and isolated house called Bethany, a place inhabited exclusively by a small group of women who seem to exist in a closed, hierarchical system a world apart. The women of Bethany live closely with the natural and animal world, celebrate rites and rituals, and, like devotees of an ancestral cult, all dress the same. Most unsettlingly, they seem to know who Coro is already. In fact, they have been expecting her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Pa1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"A3\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow the women came to live in Bethany, why they believe Coro is destined to be there, and most pressing, why won’t they let her leave are questions Coro must face as she struggles between the instinct to escape and the sense that something larger is at work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Bethany’s careful balance is disturbed—with violent consequences—by the appearance of a mysterious man who claims the house and land are his, Coro will find herself forced to meet her own ghosts, reckon with her choices, and accept that Bethany might just be where she belongs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Default\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWinner of Spain’s Premio Nacional de Narrativa in 2023, \u003ci\u003eOf Beasts and Fowls \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces a grand talent new to English audiences in a haunting novel rife with natural descriptions, signs and symbols, and a sense of the uncanny.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Spanish by \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" mce-data-marked=\"1\"\u003eKatie Whittemore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePilar Adón\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was born in Madrid in 1971 and is the author of four novels, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mayflies\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(forthcoming from Open Letter), several short story collection, and four volumes of poetry. She received the Ojo Critico Prize for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eViajes inocentes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and won the Premio Francisco Umbral al Libro del Año, Premio Cálamo, and the Premio de la Critica for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf Beasts and Fowls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translator:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"e2ma-style\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKatie Whittemore\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e translates from the Spanish. Full-length translations include works by Sara Mesa, Javier Serena, Aroa Moreno Durán, Lara Moreno, Nuria Labari, and Katixa Agirre. Forthcoming translations include novels by Jon Bilbao, Juan Gómez Bárcena, Almudena Sánchez, Aliocha Coll, and Pilar Adón. She received an NEA Translation Fellowship in 2022 to translate Moreno's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn Case We Lose Power\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, and was a finalist for the Spain-USA Prize for her translation of Katixa Agirre's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMothers Don't.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b76003;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #b76003;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eOf Beasts and Fowls\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Pilar Adón's writing … [is] literature in its purest form, and the novel \u003cem\u003eOf Beasts and Fowls\u003c\/em\u003e only confirms it.”—José María Pozuelo Yvancos, \u003cem\u003eABC Cultural\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A novel like \u003cem\u003eOf Beasts and Fowls\u003c\/em\u003e is a book that everyone who loves literature should read.”—Carlos Pardo, \u003cem\u003eBabelia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Fascination and unease are the feelings that dominate the reader of this splendid novel in which the writer plunges us back into her particular universe.”—Juan Marqués, \u003cem\u003eReading\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Those who approach Pilar Adón's writing for the first time will find themselves immersed in a mysterious and suffocating reality. [In \u003cem\u003eOf Beasts and Fowls\u003c\/em\u003e] everything is marked from the very beginning with the most overwhelming sense of the unusual.”—Santos Sanz Villanueva, \u003cem\u003eEl Cultural\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Adón has built a unique literary world with devices, spaces, and characters, as well as with her own rhetoric and themes and motifs, which set her apart from the rest of contemporary authors.”—Fernando Valls, \u003cem\u003eInfoLibre\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Pilar Adón has established herself as one of the most personal and unique voices in the current scene of Spanish literature.”—Elena Hevia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pilar Adón","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":44374897230060,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (epub)","offer_id":45590021505260,"sku":"","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/files\/9781960385178_FC.jpg?v=1707173109"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/collections\/pilar-adon\/spanish-books.oembed","provider":"Open Letter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}