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Translated by Julia Sanches.
‘A rich and prophetic world of women and low, grey clouds that merge with the sea. Pure poetry’ Pilar Quintana
‘Andrea Abreu is a lively meteorite in the landscape of Hispanic Literature’ Fernanda Melchor
‘I am overwhelmed. What a marvellous book, what a miracle’ Sara Mesa
It is June and our ten-year-old heroine 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.
And she 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.
Editore : W&N; 1° edizione (9 giugno 2022)
Lingua : Inglese
Copertina rigida : 176 pagine
ISBN-10 : 1474624065
ISBN-13 : 978-1474624060
Peso articolo : 282 g
Dimensioni : 14.2 x 2.2 x 21.8 cm
MR M. –
Just what she asked for
PeMaGa –
Artikel wie beschrieben – alles Bestens.
Rebecca –
I wasn’t a fan. I can see the author was trying to go for that heavy creative writing voice, in the perspective of a young girl, but I was excited to read this book, and I’m sorry to say, it was a miss. Doesn’t do justice for coming of age/ first love / queer relationships at all for me. It was also super straight up gross, in a not tasteful way. And I’ve defended Guadadnino films many times so I can handle the ick when it’s justified. I hope to read this author’s future work still and hope she can shift away from what this book showed. There were a few really clever parts I did love! Overall made me unnecessarily nauseous and not empathizing with any character at all. Took it on a trip with me and it tainted the trip.
Lucia Hildebrand Mendez –
Dadurch das es ein sehr dünnes Buch ist, dachte ich, dass jedes Kapitel eine anziehende Story beinhalten würde: allerdings hat sich das Buch sehr gezogen. Man kriegt aber einen realistischen Einblick in die Gedanken eines jungen Mädchens, welches ihre beste Freundin über alles vergöttert
Michelle –
Great novel from an emerging young writer.