Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Una conmovedora novela de Pilar Quintana.Damaris, una mujer del Pacifico entrada en la madurez y con muchas decepciones a cuestas, adopta a una perra y la llama Chirli, como hubiera querido llamar a la hija que nunca tuvo. Nace, asi, una relacion intensa y entranable, en la que Damaris pone todo de si para enderezar un destino que ya creia del todo torcido.
La critica ha dicho
"En la costa del Pacifico colombiano, lejos de la idilica postal, vive Damaris junto a su marido Rogelio. En este rincon del planeta la vida no conoce seguridad y los suenos conviven con las mas cruentas pesadillas. Todos se encuentran cercados: tanto por el paisaje sobrecogedor como por sus convulsos horizontes internos. En La perra, Pilar Quintana hila con extraordinaria maestria la naturaleza humana junto al caos del universo. Es una novela llena de incognitas sobre los deseos incumplidos, la culpa y los lugares por donde aun circula el amor."
Gabriela Aleman
"La perra es una novela de una violencia verdadera. Como la artista que es, Pilar Quintana encuentra heridas que no sabiamos que teniamos, senala su belleza, y luego arroja en ellas un puno de sal."
Yuri Herrera
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A moving novel by Pilar Quintana.
Damaris, a mature woman from the Pacific with many disappointments behind her, adopts a dog and names her Chirli, which is what she would have named the daughter she never had. Thus is born an intense, fond relationship in which Damaris invests all of herself to straighten out a destiny that she believed was already totally awry.
The critics have said:
"On the Pacific coast of Colombia, far from an idyllic postcard, Damaris lives with her husband Rogelio. In this corner of the planet, life knows no certainty and dreams coexist with the bloodiest nightmares. Everyone finds themselves fenced in: by the horrible landscape as well as its tumultuous internal limits. In The Dog, Pilar Quintana intertwines human nature and the chaos of the universe with extraordinary mastery. This is a novel full of mysteries about unrequited desires, guilt, and the places that love still circulates."
-Gabriela Aleman
"The Dog is a novel of true violence. Like the artist she is, Pilar Quintana finds wounds that we didn't know we had, shows us their beauty, and then throws a handful of salt in them."
-Yuri Herrera
Synopsis
La perra es una novela sobre el amor de las madres, la traici n, la lealtad, la culpa y la soledad de las relaciones humanas. IV PREMIO BIBLIOTECA DE NARRATIVA COLOMBIANA
Nominada para el National Book Award
En un peque o pueblo del Pac fico donde confluyen la belleza y la violencia de la regi n y conviven, separados, la riqueza y la pobreza, los blancos y los negros, tiene lugar la historia de Damaris.
Damaris, una negra del Pac fico ya en la madurez, lleva muchos a os viviendo con Rogelio. Su turbulenta relaci n ha estado marcada por la b squeda infructuosa de un hijo: prueban de todo, y aun as Damaris no consigue quedarse embarazada. Perdida toda esperanza, Damaris encuentra una nueva ilusi n cuando se le presenta la oportunidad de adoptar una perra. Esta nueva e intensa relaci n con el animal ser para Damaris la experiencia que la obligar a reflexionar sobre el instinto y la maternidad.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
LONGLISTED FOR 2020 THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE
In Colombia's brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy.
"The magic of this sparse novel is its ability to talk about many things, all of them important, while seemingly talking about something else entirely. What are those things? Violence, loneliness, resilience, cruelty. Quintana works wonders with her disillusioned, no-nonsense, powerful prose." Juan Gabriel V squez, author of The Sound of Things Falling
"The Bitch is a novel of true violence. Artist that she is, Pilar Quintana uncovers wounds we didn't know we had, shows us their beauty, and then throws a handful of salt into them." Yuri Herrera, author of Signs Preceding the End of the World
Colombia's Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. In this constant struggle, nothing is taken for granted. Damaris lives with her fisherman husband in a shack on a bluff overlooking the sea. Childless and at that age "when women dry up," as her uncle puts it, she is eager to adopt an orphaned puppy. But this act may bring more than just affection into her home. The Bitch is written in a prose as terse as the villagers, with storms―both meteorological and emotional―lurking around each corner. Beauty and dread live side by side in this poignant exploration of the many meanings of motherhood and love.