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From Savagery

By Alejandra Banca

From Savagery

By Alejandra Banca

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"Electric, defiant, and singing with melancholia, Alejandra Banca's devastating debut throws its arms around a displaced generation of young Venezuelan migrants, reveling in the clamor and beauty of their day-by-day survival. Below the rooftops of Barcelona's historic avenues, in the shadow of the Sagrada Famâilia and its fleet of construction cranes, thrums a vital pulse: meal-delivery riders, sex workers, strung-out artists, anti-capitalist squatters, undocumented shopgirls, fledgeling drug dealers, and a thousand more lives that cross and knit together at the lowest level of Spain's urban tumult. The young expats of these stories careen through crowded streets, nightclubs, and dating apps with a devil-may-care abandon that belies their precarious circumstances. Tragedy will erupt and then ebb in an instant, receding in the rearview like a roadside collision and haunting those that push on. Running on fumes and paltry tips, Banca's beleaguered characters race along a knife's edge and find unexpected solace in moments of shared vulnerability-a knowing thread that unites these strangers in a strange land. In this English PEN Award-winning translation by Katie Brown, From Savagery announces Alejandra Banca as a resplendent and masterful new voice in Latin American literature-one that will take readers by storm"--
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
2024-08-27
Publication Date:
2024-08-27
Publisher:
Restless Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1632063581
ISBN13:
9781632063588
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
276 g
Height:
124 cm
Width:
179 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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