Pilgrís, how is it possible that you getting up in a bad mood one day leads to the running of a cheesy advert and your cat ends up disguised as a chicken?
Diego jumps from a fifth floor, and from that moment on, the image is drilled into his sister’s mind: six seconds and a body crashing against the ground. She is the one who looks back and tells the story of the two siblings.
Peka the hen dreams of being able to sing and that one day, she will wake the whole valley with her call. But no hen has ever sung. It’s something cockerels do.
The novel tells the story of a young woman in contemporary Barcelona. It is narrated in the first person with a Joycean ‘a day in the life of…’ style of voice, although the novel takes place over several different days.
A saga about a family from the Poblenou neighbourhood of Barcelona living under the weight of a curse.
Lily Meyer is a writer, translator, and critic. Her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. Her ...
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