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Blood Is Dripping Onto the Courtyard: Stories

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Availability:In StockContributor:Elvira Navarro, Christina Macsweeney, Sarah Rose EtterTheme:Chronological Period/21st Century, Cultural Region/SpanishPublish date:9/22/2026Pages:240
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Two Lines PressISBN-13:9781966192077ISBN-10:196619207XUPC:9781966192077Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Psychological, Short Stories (single author), LiterarySize:7.90 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.25Product ID:SC1R8N4J2W

From the National Book Award longlisted author of Rabbit Island comes a new collection of stories that straddle the line between the horrific and the fantastic.

A young couple's washing machine fills with blood; a man saves animals who have been hit along the highway, turning his home in a peculiar zoo; the security guard of a half-built housing development suffers from hallucinations; a young woman struggles to understand the cruel neglect of the Parisian suburbs.

This is a world of precarious jobs, towns in the middle of nowhere, abandoned buildings, and cities that are nothing more than blocks of concrete whose contours Elvira Navarro distorts to the point of giving reality the consistency of a nightmare. In an almost imperceptible way, the disturbing infiltrates the lives of these men and women until they find themselves alone at the end of a dark road, afraid to turn around.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Two Lines PressISBN-13:9781966192077ISBN-10:196619207XUPC:9781966192077Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Psychological, Short Stories (single author), LiterarySize:7.90 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.25Product ID:SC1R8N4J2W
Macsweeney, Christina: - Christina MacSweeney is an award-winning translator. She has worked with such authors as Valeria Luiselli, Elvira Navarra, Julián Herbert, Daniel Saldaña París, Jazmina Barrera, and Clyo Mendoza. She has also contributed to various anthologies of Latin American literature and published shorter translations, articles, interviews, and collaborations on a wide variety of platforms. Most recently, her translation of Jazmina Barrera's The Queen of Swords won the 2025 Cercador prize.Navarro, Elvira: - Elvira Navarro won the Community of Madrid's Young Writers Award in 2004. Her first book, La ciudad en invierno (The City in Winter), published in 2007, was well received by the critics, and her second, La ciudad feliz (The Happy City, Hispabooks, 2013) was given the twenty-fifth Jaén Fiction Award and the fourth Tormenta Award for best new author, as well as being selected as one of the books of the year by Culturas, the arts and culture supplement of the Spanish newspaper Público. Granta magazine also named her one of their top twenty-two Spanish writers under the age of thirty-five. She is the author of A Working Woman (2017, Two Lines Press); Rabbit Island (2021, Two Lines Press), which was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature; and The Voices of Adriana, which has been awarded the 2023 Cálamo Special Prize.
Publisher: Two Lines Press

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