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The Week of Colors

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Availability:In StockContributor:Elena Garro, Megan McDowell (Translator), Álvaro Enrigue (Introduction by)Publish date:11/11/2025Pages:260
Language:EnglishPublisher:Two Lines PressISBN-13:9781949641899ISBN-10:1949641899UPC:9781949641899Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Hispanic & Latino, World LiteratureBook Topic:Women, MexicoSize:7.90 x 4.80 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SC3KKQCSCA
Short stories from the "cursed mother of magical realism" (El Mundo), now in English for the first time

A woman flits between two realities centuries apart, as scenes from the violent conquest of Mexico bleed their way into her comfortable contemporary life. Two little girls visit the home of a sorcerer who tortures women named after the days of the week. Girls become dogs, a laborer hides human bones in bricks he'll use to build a new development, and an old woman appears at an acquaintance's door one night with a knife and a bone-chilling confession.

With The Week of Colors, Elena Garro laid the groundwork for the literary movements that would shape the landscape of Latin American fiction and beyond. Here you'll find the early roots of magical realism, feminist horror, and anticolonial speculative fiction. In The Week of Colors, Garro highlights the violence in our history, our homes, and our hearts, in vivid color.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Two Lines PressISBN-13:9781949641899ISBN-10:1949641899UPC:9781949641899Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Hispanic & Latino, World LiteratureBook Topic:Women, MexicoSize:7.90 x 4.80 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SC3KKQCSCA
Garro, Elena: - Elena Garro (1916-1998) was a novelist, playwright, short story writer, journalist, and the inventor of magical realism, though she rejected the term as "a cheap marketing label." The author of over 40 books, she wrote about the violence embedded in everyday life, with a focus on children, women, and indigenous people.McDowell, Megan: - Megan McDowell has translated many of the most important Latin American writers working today. Her translations have won numerous prizes, including the National Book Award, and have been nominated for the International Booker Prize four times. She is from Richmond, Kentucky, and lives in Barcelona, Spain.
Publisher: Two Lines Press

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