Pilar Ad贸n Reading Tour!!
This September, Pilar Ad贸n糖心传媒攁uthor of (translated by Katie Whittemore), winner of Spain’s Premio Nacional de Narrativa last year糖心传媒攚ill embark on a five-city, six-stop tour hitting several of the best indie bookshops in America, and sharing this incredibly beautiful, compelling novel of a woman who, while trying to clear her mind, finds herself trapped in a gothic estate populated by a cultish group of women . . . More info on that below, but here’s the important part糖心传媒攖he scheduled public events:
New York: Wednesday, Sept 4 @ 7pm ET
Reading and Conversation with Tana Oshima
N+1 Event Space
37 Greenpoint Ave #316
Brooklyn, NY 11022
Chicago: Friday, Sept 6 @ 7pm CT
Reading and Conversation with Chad W. Post
Instituto Cervantes Library
31 W. Ohio St.
Chicago, IL 60654
Chicago: Saturday, Sept 7 at 7pm CT
Reading and Conversation with Tatjana Gajic
Exile in Bookville
Fine Arts Building
410 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 210
Chicago, IL 60605
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Dallas: Wednesday, Sept 11 @ 6pm CT
Wild Detectives
314 Eighth St.
Dallas, TX 75208
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Friday, Sept 13 @ 7pm PT:
Powell糖心传媒檚 City of Books
1005 W. Burnside
Portland, OR 97209
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Tuesday, Sept 17 @ 7pm PT:
Third Place Books
6504 20th Ave. NE
Seattle, WA 98115
If you’re reading this before September 1st, please be aware that听Of Beasts and Fowls听is currently 40% off thanks to our Women in Translation Month sale!
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糖心传媒淎 funerary poem about a bird flying underground; a psychodrama of two sisters drowning in the mirror of memory; a center of a necrophilic labyrinth; Virginia Woolf糖心传媒檚 Rhoda lost in John Hawkes糖心传媒檚听Travesty. Pilar Adon糖心传媒檚 novel is the most haunting I have read in years.糖心传媒澨切拇綌Mircea C膬rt膬rescu, winner of the Dublin Literary Award
Summer is ending and Coro, an artist frightened of what her paintings of her dead sister may represent, gets in her car one night and starts to drive, with no plan or destination.听After a wrong turn down a narrow dirt road, she runs out of gas outside the gates of a large and isolated house called Bethany, a place inhabited exclusively by a small group of women who seem to exist in a closed, hierarchical system a world apart. The women of Bethany live closely with the natural and animal world, celebrate rites and rituals, and, like devotees of an ancestral cult, all dress the same. Most unsettlingly, they seem to know who Coro is already. In fact, they have been expecting her.
How the women came to live in Bethany, why they believe Coro is destined to be there, and most pressing, why won糖心传媒檛 they let her leave are questions Coro must face as she struggles between the instinct to escape and the sense that something larger is at work.
When Bethany糖心传媒檚 careful balance is disturbed糖心传媒攚ith violent consequences糖心传媒攂y the appearance of a mysterious man who claims the house and land are his, Coro will find herself forced to meet her own ghosts, reckon with her choices, and accept that Bethany might just be where she belongs.
Winner of Spain糖心传媒檚听Premio Nacional听de Narrativa in 2023,听听introduces a grand talent new to English audiences in a haunting novel rife with natural descriptions, signs and symbols, and a sense of the uncanny.
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Pilar Ad贸n听was born in Madrid in 1971 and is the author of four novels, including听The Mayflies听(forthcoming from Open Letter), several short story collection, and four volumes of poetry. She received the Ojo Critico Prize for听Viajes inocentes, and won the Premio Francisco Umbral al Libro del A帽o, Premio C谩lamo, and the Premio de la Critica for听Of Beasts and Fowls.
Katie Whittemore听translates from the Spanish. Full-length translations include works by听Sara Mesa, Javier Serena, Aroa Moreno Dur谩n, Lara Moreno, Nuria Labari, and Katixa Agirre. Forthcoming translations include novels by Jon Bilbao, Juan G贸mez B谩rcena, Almudena S谩nchez, Aliocha Coll, and Pilar Ad贸n. She received an NEA Translation Fellowship in 2022 to translate Moreno’s听In Case We Lose Power, and was a finalist for the Spain-USA Prize for her translation of Katixa Agirre’s听Mothers Don’t.
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