Name: The Rooftop
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Author: Fernanda Trías
ISBN: 9781913867041

Type

Physical Book

Author

Fernanda Trías

Translated by

Annie McDermott

Publisher

Charco Press

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

112

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.4 x 12.8 x 1.2 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9781913867041

Synopsis "The Rooftop "

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.

Fernanda Trías

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Fernanda Trías. Born in Uruguay in 1976 and lives in Colombia. She is a storyteller, translator, and creative writing teacher. She published Cuaderno para un solo ojo, La azotea, La ciudad invencible, No soñarás flores, and Mugre rosa. For Mugre rosa, she received support from the Eñe/Casa de Velázquez residency (Spain, 2018), the National Literature Award (Uruguay, 2020), the Bartolomé Hidalgo Critics' Award (Uruguay, 2021), and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award (Mexico, 2021). In 2024, Mugre rosa was nominated for the National Book Awards in the United States. Both La azotea and Mugre rosa won the British PEN Translates Award (2020 and 2022). Her novels have been translated into more than fifteen languages.

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