Mouthful of Birds
Stories
New York : Riverhead Books, 2019.
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: 228 pages ; 21 cm
Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where every shadow and bump in the dark take on huge implications; they leave your pulse racing and the line between the real and the strange blurring.
Contents:
Headlights -- Preserves -- Butterflies -- Mouthful of birds -- Santa Claus sleeps at our house -- The digger -- Irman -- The test -- Toward happy civilization -- Olingiris -- My brother Walter -- The merman -- Rage of pestilence -- Heads against concrete -- The size of things -- Underground -- Slowing down -- On the steppe -- A great effort -- The heavy suitcase of Benavides.
Subjects:
Schweblin, Samanta, 1978- -- Translations into English.
Married people -- Fiction.
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Schweblin, Samanta, 1978- -- Translations into English.
Married people -- Fiction.
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780399184628
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Schweblin | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
"Originally published in Spanish in 2010 as Pájaros en la boca by Random House Mondadori."