Variations on the Body
Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2021.
Format: Book
Edition: First English-language edition.
Description: xiii, 113 pages ; 20 cm
"In six subtly connected stories, Variations on the Body explores the obsessions, desires, and idiosyncrasies of women and girls from different strata of Colombian society. A former FARC guerilla fighter adjusts to urban life and faces the new violence of an editor co-opting her experiences. A woman adrift in the city she left as a child looks for someone to care for, even if it has to be by force, while another documents a flea infestation with a catalog of the marks on her flesh. A little girl copes with her anxiety about the adult world by exacting revenge on her nanny, who she thinks belongs to her. Combining humor, heartbreak, and unexpected violence, Ospina constructs a keen reflection on the body as a simultaneous vehicle of connection and alienation in vibrant, gleaming prose"-- Provided by publisher.
Other Authors:
Cleary, Heather, translator.
Ospina Pizano, María. Policarpa.
Ospina Pizano, María. Ocasión.
Ospina Pizano, María. Salvación de señoritas.
Ospina Pizano, María. Fauna de las eras.
Ospina Pizano, María. Collateral beauty.
Ospina Pizano, María. Short stories. Selections.
Cleary, Heather, translator.
Ospina Pizano, María. Policarpa.
Ospina Pizano, María. Ocasión.
Ospina Pizano, María. Salvación de señoritas.
Ospina Pizano, María. Fauna de las eras.
Ospina Pizano, María. Collateral beauty.
Ospina Pizano, María. Short stories. Selections.
Contents:
Policarpa -- Occasion -- Saving young ladies -- Fauna of the ages -- Collateral beauty -- Variations on the body.
ISBN:
9781566896108
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Ospina Pizano | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
"First published in Spanish as Azares del cuerpo (Bogotá: Laguna Libros, 2017)"--Title page verso.