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Longlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated Literature - Named a BEST BOOK of 2024 by NPR, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, and ScreenRant - "The disconcerting familiarity of this strange, windswept world will haunt you." --Esquire A hair-raising, poetic novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them edges toward apocalypse. In a city ravaged by a mysterious plague, a woman tries to understand why her world is falling apart. An algae bloom has poisoned the previously pristine air that blows in from the sea. Inland, a secretive corporation churns out the only food anyone can afford--a revolting pink paste, made of an unknown substance. In the short, desperate breaks between deadly windstorms, our narrator stubbornly tends to her few remaining relationships: with her difficult but vulnerable mother; with the ex-husband for whom she still harbors feelings; with the boy she nannies, whose parents sent him away even as terrible threats loomed. Yet as conditions outside deteriorate further, her commitment to remaining in place only grows--even if staying means being left behind. An evocative elegy for a safe, clean world, Pink Slime is buoyed by humor and its narrator's resiliency. This vivid and unforgettable novel explores the place where love, responsibility, and self-preservation converge.

Longlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated Literature - Named a BEST BOOK of 2024 by NPR, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, and ScreenRant - "The disconcerting familiarity of this strange, windswept world will haunt you." --Esquire A hair-raising, poetic novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them edges toward apocalypse. In a city ravaged by a mysterious plague, a woman tries to understand why her world is falling apart. An algae bloom has poisoned the previously pristine air that blows in from the sea. Inland, a secretive corporation churns out the only food anyone can afford--a revolting pink paste, made of an unknown substance. In the short, desperate breaks between deadly windstorms, our narrator stubbornly tends to her few remaining relationships: with her difficult but vulnerable mother; with the ex-husband for whom she still harbors feelings; with the boy she nannies, whose parents sent him away even as terrible threats loomed. Yet as conditions outside deteriorate further, her commitment to remaining in place only grows--even if staying means being left behind. An evocative elegy for a safe, clean world, Pink Slime is buoyed by humor and its narrator's resiliency. This vivid and unforgettable novel explores the place where love, responsibility, and self-preservation converge.

In a rundown apartment building, in an unnamed city in Uruguay, a father and daughter close themselves off from the world."The world is this house," says Clara, and the rooftop becomes their last recess of freedom. A pet canary is their only witness. As Clara’s connection to the outside is stripped away—the neighbor who stops coming by, the lover whose existence is only known by a pregnancy—desperation and paranoia take hold. It's a stifling embrace, and we are there with her, our narrator, dreading what we know the future holds.

Empezamos allí donde terminamos: ¿qué ha ocurrido en este apartamento en ruinas, separado del mundo exterior?En un apartamento en ruinas, en una ciudad uruguaya sin nombre, un padre y su hija se encierran y se aíslan del mundo exterior. “El mundo es esta casa”, dice Clara. La azotea se vuelve su último y único acceso a la libertad. Hay un solo testigo: el canario.A medida que los vínculos de Clara con el afuera se van extinguiendo -la vecina que deja de venir, el novio cuya existencia es aparente solo a través de un embarazo-, la desesperación y la paranoia van tomando protagonismo. Es un abrazo que asfixia, y nosotros estamos aquí con ella, nuestra narradora, aterrados ante lo que trae el devenir.In a rundown apartment building, in an unnamed city in Uruguay, a father and daughter close themselves off from the world. ‘The world is this house’, says Clara, and the rooftop becomes their last recess of freedom. A pet canary is their only witness.As Clara’s connection to the outside is stripped away—the neighbor who stops coming by, the lover whose existence is only known by a pregnancy—desperation and paranoia take hold. It's a stifling embrace, and we are there with her, our narrator, dreading what we know the future holds.In a rundown apartment building, in an unnamed city in Uruguay, a father and daughter close themselves off from the world."The world is this house," says Clara, and the rooftop becomes their last recess of freedom. A pet canary is their only witness. As Clara’s connection to the outside is stripped away—the neighbor who stops coming by, the lover whose existence is only known by a pregnancy—desperation and paranoia take hold. It's a stifling embrace, and we are there with her, our narrator, dreading what we know the future holds.

Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolomé-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Prize. A port city is in the grips of an ecological crisis. The river has filled with toxic algae, and a deadly ‘red wind’ blows through its streets; much of the coast has been evacuated as the wealthy migrate inland to safety, leaving the rest to shelter in abandoned houses as blackouts and food shortages abound. The unnamed narrator is one of those who has stayed. She spends her days trying to disentangle herself from the two relationships that had once meant everything to her, and looking after the young boy who’s been placed in her care. As the world in which they move becomes smaller, she reflects on the collapse of the other emotional ties in her life and the emergence of a radical yet tender solitude. With striking prose and vivid characters, the multi-award-winning Pink Slime offers profound reflections on motherhood, marriage, and caregiving, set against the backdrop of a crumbling city.

Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolomé-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Prize. A port city is in the grips of an ecological crisis. The river has filled with toxic algae, and a deadly ‘red wind’ blows through its streets; much of the coast has been evacuated as the wealthy migrate inland to safety, leaving the rest to shelter in abandoned houses as blackouts and food shortages abound. The unnamed narrator is one of those who has stayed. She spends her days trying to disentangle herself from the two relationships that had once meant everything to her, and looking after the young boy who’s been placed in her care. As the world in which they move becomes smaller, she reflects on the collapse of the other emotional ties in her life and the emergence of a radical yet tender solitude. With striking prose and vivid characters, the multi-award-winning Pink Slime offers profound reflections on motherhood, marriage, and caregiving, set against the backdrop of a crumbling city.

"He ah su destreza: narrar lo aparentemente inenarrable, las semillas del dolor, la temblorosa haza a que es el apego a la vida". Magela Baudoin y Giovanna Rivero Una mujer pone sus esperanzas en una mu eca para resarcir a os de abandono a su hija; otra, acompa ada de un grupo heterog neo de dolientes, busca entre las pertenencias de su padre muerto olores y recuerdos que la sigan aferrando a l; dos amigas hacen un viaje a un pueblo id lico junto a una central nuclear y se encontrar n con las tensiones e inquinas que las han acompa ado durante tantos a os de amistad; un sepulturero ofrece una mirada llena de vida; una mujer busca en la forma del cuento una revelaci n sobre su v nculo con una pareja en Buenos Aires. Estos relatos -fieles exponentes del universo literario de Tr as por la hondura, la exploraci n de lo no dicho, por el trabajo de filigrana con el lenguaje y la atenci n puesta sobre aquello que parece estar a punto de quebrarse- llegan al cat logo de Random House luego de haber sido publicados en varios pa ses con excelente cr tica. "No so ar s flores es una colecci n que conjuga muerte y belleza, que se acerca al mundo, desconfiando de los sentidos de siempre. Cuentos de personajes en tr nsito, de traiciones cotidianas, de dolores que no caben en la suma de los d as". Mar a Jos Navia ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "This is his strength: narrating the seemingly unnarratable, the seeds of pain, our precarious attachment to life." - Magela Baudoin and Giovanna Rivero A woman puts her hopes in a doll to make up for the years she abandoned her daughter; another, accompanied by a varied group of mourners, searches her dead father's belongings for memories that will keep her close to him; two friends travel to an idyllic town near a nuclear reactor and wrestle with tensions and resentments that have plagued them for years; a gravedigger with a fresh take on life; a woman who looks for insights in a story to understand her relationship with a couple in Buenos Aires. This volume, now offered by Random House after being published to excellent reviews in other countries, is representative of the depth of Tr as's literary universe, its exploration of the unsaid, exquisite prose and emphasis on fragility. "You Will Not Dream of Flowers is a collection of stories that link death and beauty. It approaches the world with mistrust of our usual senses. These are stories of people in transit, daily betrayals, pain too vast to fit within the sum of our days." - Mar a Jos Navia

La nueva novela de la autora de Mugre rosa, galardonada en 2021 con el Premio Sor Juana In s de la Cruz. « spera, l rica, cruel y con la rar sima dulzura de las voces que casi nadie escucha y mucho menos escribe, El monte de las furias es una novela potente y hermosa .--Gabriela Cabez n C mara Una mujer vive en la ladera de la monta a, entre la neblina que baja y el follaje feraz. Su misi n es cuidar los linderos, avisar al celador de cualquier anomal a. En sus cuadernos escribe sobre su rutina parsimoniosa y los recuerdos de una infancia marcada por una madre brutal y por el deseo insatisfecho de aprender. Al fondo, se escucha la cantera y el ruido de las camionetas blindadas sobre la destapada. Un d a aparece en su jard n un cuerpo, y turbados y cuidadosos de no llamar la atenci n, con el celador deciden enterrarlo. Pero aparece otro. Y otro y otro y otro... La escritura prodigiosa, caracter stica de Tr as, reluce en esta novela inquietante y atmosf rica, en la que los t picos de la madre, la violencia y la relaci n con la naturaleza reaparecen, y con cu nta fuerza estremecen al lector. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The latest novel by the author of Pink Slime, winner of the 2021 Sor Juana In s de la Cruz Prize. "Harsh, lyrical, cruel, and with a rare sweetness from voices almost no one hears, much less writes about. The Hill of Wrath is a powerful and beautiful novel." Gabriela Cabez n C mara A woman lives on a mountainside, between the mist and the forest. Her mission is to watch the borders and report any anomalies to the guard. Her journals record her spartan routine and memories of a childhood with a brutal mother and unrealized dreams of an education. In the background, there is the constant rumble from the quarry and armored trucks. One day, she finds a body in the yard; fearful of attracting attention, she and the guard decide to bury it. But another soon appears. And another, and another.... Tr as extraordinary talent shines in this unsettling and atmospheric novel, with neglectful mothers, violence and humanity's relationship to nature as its recurring themes.

Lyserødt snask er en urovækkende roman med en prosa, der er rig på poetiske elementer. Fernanda Trías opbygger et ekstraordinært univers, der blotlægger den enorme skønhed, men også den kolossale smerte, der findes i de skrøbelige menneskelige relationer.I en verden, der minder om Montevideo i Uruguay, hærget af en mystisk pest, forsøger en kvinde at finde ud af, hvorfor hendes verden smuldrer og falder fra hinanden.Det er ikke på grund af truslen om sygdom og død forårsaget af de giftige alger og den mystiske røde vind.Det er heller ikke den kritiske fødevaresituation, hvor befolkningen brødfødes med en massefremstillet lyserød kødmasse.

Verden er det her hus, siger Clara, som forsøger at beskytte sine kære fra en verden uden for hjemmets fire vægge, der synes at udgøre en stadig større trussel. Clara har lukket sig inde i en mørk lejlighed sammen med sin far, sin datter og en kanariefugl, og tagterrassen bliver det sted, hvor hun finder den sidste rest af frihed. Kommer trusler og smerte udefra eller inde fra vores egen krop? Hvoraf opstår volden? Hvad er vi bange for? Fernanda Trías forsøger ikke at besvare disse spørgsmål om instinkt, civilisation og tabuer, men hun giver dem form og graver dybt ned i dem med denne groteske og stærke roman, skrevet med nærmest kafkask humor. Tagterrassen er en klaustrofobisk roman om frihed, men også om angst, vold og moderskab og om det at miste. ”Trías har skabt en verden, hvor alle sociale normer og konventioner går i opløsning, hvor en hjælpsom nabo bliver til en spion, og tagterrassen på et lejlighedskompleks til det eneste fristed fra en verden, der er ved at smuldre. En foruroligende kraftpræstation af en af de mest spændende og nyskabende nulevende latinamerikanske forfattere.” Morning Star

Som ett klärvoajant förebud om den kommande pandemin skrev Fernanda Trías redan 2018 Rosa slajm, en olycksbådande science fiction-dystopi om en värld där en epidemi har brutit ut. En hamnstad, förvillande lik Trías födelseort Montevideo, befinner sig i en nedbrytande och ständigt övervakad tillvaro, med utegångsförbud, ansiktsmasker och matbrist. Huvudpersonen, en kvinna i fyrtioårsåldern, lever i ett spänningsfält av invecklade och samberoende relationer; till sin mor, sin exman och ett sjukligt barn som hon sköter om, men som inte är hennes eget. Ett dominerande tema är moderskapets komplexitet, som bortom det rent biologiska framträder som en aktiv, omhändertagande gärning. Den fragmentariskt uppbyggda romanen blottlägger mänskliga subtiliteter och paradoxer i en poetisk, illavarslande prosa. Rosa slajm är en berättelse om sjukdomar och död, om alger och hälsovådliga röda vindar, och om det rosa slajmet, det numera enda ätbara. Men det är också berättelsen om kollapsen av en människas alla affektiva band där livets bräcklighet och dess relationer utforskas. Redan ansedd som en modern klassiker har Rosa slajm hyllats av sydamerikanska och spanska kritiker och belönats med det prestigefyllda Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz-priset 2021. Fernanda Trías (1976, Montevideo) är en uruguayansk författare, som var vän och student till den surrealistiskt inspirerade författaren Mario Levrero. Hon har en magisterexamen i kreativt skrivande från New York University och föreläser nu i samma ämne vid Universidad de los Andes i Bogotá, Colombia. Trías har gett ut två novellsamlingar och tre romaner. Rosa slajm (Mugre Rosa) från 2021 är hennes senaste verk.