Pink Slime: A Novel

A harrowing, intimate novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them teeters on the edge--marking an award-winning Latin American author's US debut. "An intimate, melancholic look at an ecologically ravaged future." --Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Mexican Gothic and Silver Nitrate * "Powerful and beautifully written." --The Guardian 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 unforgettable novel explores the place where love, responsibility, and self-preservation converge, and the beauty and fragility of our most intimate relationships.

Literature & Fiction

Trías, Fernanda

United States

Scribner

Longlisted for the 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated Literature * "Evocative, dreamlike, and immersive...The disconcerting familiarity of this strange, windswept world will haunt you." --Esquire A harrowing, intimate novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them teeters on the edge--marking an award-winning Latin American author's US debut. 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.&nbsp; 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.

The Rooftop

Charco Press

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.

La Azotea (Spanish Edition)

No soñarás flores

Genre Fiction

Editorial Tránsito

Premio&nbsp;Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2021 Uno de los mejores libros en español del 2020 del New York Times Con una prosa inquietante y rica en hallazgos poéticos, construye un universo que descubre la enorme belleza y el inmenso dolor que hay en la fragilidad de la vida y las relaciones. En una ciudad portuaria asolada por una plaga misteriosa, una mujer intenta descifrar por qué su mundo se desmorona. No es sólo el acecho de la enfermedad y la muerte, las algas y los vientos pestíferos, los amasijos rosáceos que son ya lo único que se puede comer, sino el colapso de todos sus vínculos afectivos, la incertidumbre, la eclosión de una soledad radical. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Winner of the&nbsp;Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award 2021 One of the best Spanish Books of 2020 by The New York Times With an unsettling prose, rich in poetic findings, Trías creates a whole universe to discover the immense beauty and insurmountable pain we find in the frailty of life and relationships. In a port city ravaged by a mysterious plague, a woman struggles to understand why her world is falling apart. It is not just sickness and death lurking, the algae and the pestiferous winds, the pink mashes that are the only things left to eat, but the crumbling of all her emotional attachments, the uncertainty, the dawn of radical loneliness.

Mugre Rosa / Pink Slime (MAPA DE LAS LENGUAS) (Spanish Edition)

Literary

Literatura Random House

La ciudad invencible

Contemporary

Demipage

LA AZOTEA

Laguna libros

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