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The bitch
Quintana, Pilar, 1972- author.
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World Editions, |
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2020. |
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1 online resource |
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9781642860603 |
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1 copy available at University of Alberta - Internet.
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The bitch
Quintana, Pilar, 1972- author.
The bitch
Quintana, Pilar, 1972- author.
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Personal Author:
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Quintana, Pilar, 1972- author.
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Uniform title:
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[Perra. English]
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Title:
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The bitch / Pilar Quintana ; translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman.
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Publication:
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New York ; London ; Amsterdam : World Editions, 2020.
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Copyright date:
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©2020
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Physical description:
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1 online resource
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text txt
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computer c
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online resource cr
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Subject term:
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Women--Colombia--Fiction.
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Women--Social conditions--21st century--Fiction.
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Motherhood--Fiction.
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Dogs--Fiction.
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Human-animal relationships--Fiction.
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Dogs. fast
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Human-animal relationships. fast
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Motherhood. fast
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Women. fast
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Women--Social conditions. fast
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Geographic term:
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Colombia--Fiction.
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Geographic term:
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Colombia. fast
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Genre index term:
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Fiction.
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Genre index term:
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Novels.
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Genre index term:
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Novels.
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General Note:
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"First published as La perra in Colombia in 2017 by Literatura Random House."--Title page verso.
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Access restriction:
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
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Summary:
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"In Colombia's brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy. 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." --
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Biographical note:
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Pilar Quintana is a Colombian author. She debuted with Cosquillas en la lengua in 2003, and published Coleccionistas de polvos raros in 2007, the same year the Hay Festival selected her as one of the most promising young authors of Latin America. Her latest novel, The Bitch, won the prestigious Colombian Biblioteca de Narrativa Prize, and was selected for several Best Books of 2017 lists, as well as being chosen as one of the most valuable objects to preserve for future generations in a marble time capsule in Bogotá. The Bitch is the first of her works to be translated into English.
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Biographical note:
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Lisa Dillman lives in Georgia, USA, where she translates Spanish, Catalan, and Latin American writers and teaches at Emory University. Some of her recent translations include Such Small Hands (winner of the 2018 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Award) by Andrés Barba; Signs Preceding the End of the World (winner of the 2016 Best Translated Book Award), Kingdom Cons, and The Transmigration of Bodies (shortlisted for the 2018 Dublin Literary Award) by Yuri Herrera, and Breathing Through the Wound and A Million Drops, by Víctor del Árbol.
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Language:
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Translated from the Spanish.
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Added Entry-Personal:
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Dillman, Lisa, translator.
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ISBN:
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9781642860603
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key:
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9462255
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