A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision of the human experience emerges in complex, unexpected ways--often unsettling, sometimes thrilling, and always profound. In "Roberto," a girl claims to have a rabbit between her legs. A woman's neighbor jumps to his death in "A Light, Swift, and Monstrous Sound," and in "Candy Pink," a woman fails to contend with a difficult breakup in five easy steps. Written in Bazterrica's signature clever, vivid style, these stories question love, friendship, family relationships, and unspeakable desires.

Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird: Stories

Literature & Fiction

BAZTERRICA, AGUSTINA

Literary

Scribner

The Unworthy: A Novel

United States

Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

FABER ET FABER

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.\nHis wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.\nThen one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

Tender Is the Flesh

Cadavre exquis

Flammarion

Cadáver exquisito (Premio Clarín 2017) / Tender is the Flesh (MAPA DE LAS LENGUAS) (Spanish Edition)

Travel

Alfaguara

Las indignas

cadaver exquisito-premio clarin 2017 (Spanish Edition)

clarin/alfaguara

«Tengo un conejo entre las piernas. Es negro. Yo le digo Roberto, pero se podría llamar Ignacio o incluso Carla, pero le digo Roberto porque tiene forma de Roberto. Es lindo porque es peludo y duerme mucho. Le conté a mi amiga Isabel. Le dije: "Isa, hace poco me creció un conejo entre las piernas. ¿Vos también tenés uno?".»\nCon la publicación de Cadáver exquisito (Premio Clarín Novela 2017), Agustina Bazterrica logró dos cosas al mismo tiempo: consagrarse como una de las escritoras argentinas más leídas y respetadas en todo el mundo, y transformar el libro en un clásico instantáneo. Esa distopía acerca de un mundo casi inhumano, que no cesa de cuestionar nuestro modo de vida actual y que dispara toda clase de preguntas acerca de lo contemporáneo, tiene historia. La autora lleva muchos años escribiendo relatos y cuentos breves, que hoy Alfaguara reedita en este volumen. Diecinueve cuentos que nos llevan al corazón de nuestros miedos, de las fantasías más delirantes y oscuras y también del humor más negro. Textos que cuestionan el amor, la amistad, las relaciones familiares y los deseos inconfesables. Una lectura absorbente que confirma un estilo y una profundidad únicos en el panorama de la literatura en castellano.

DIECINUEVE GARRAS Y UN PAJARO OSCURO

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