{"product_id":"rabbit-island-hardcover","title":"Rabbit Island - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElvira Navarro\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChristina Macsweeney\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese eleven stories from one of Granta's \"Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists\" combine gritty surrealism with explosive interior meditations, traversing the fickle, often terrifying terrain between madness and freedom. In the title story, a so-called \"non-inventor\" brings snow-white rabbits to an island inhabited exclusively by birds, with horrific results. In \"Myotragus\" a privileged man's understanding of the world is violently disrupted by the sight of a creature long thought extinct. Elsewhere in these stories that map dingy hotel rooms, shape-shifting cities, and graveyards, an unsightly \"paw\" grows from a writer's earlobe and a grandmother floats silently in the corner of the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eElvira Navarro won the Community of Madrid's Young Writers Award in 2004. Her first book, \u003cem\u003eLa ciudad en invierno\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe City in Winter\u003c\/em\u003e), published in 2007, was well received by the critics, and her second, \u003cem\u003eLa ciudad feliz\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe Happy City\u003c\/em\u003e, Hispabooks, 2013) was given the twenty-fifth Jaén Fiction Award and the fourth Tormenta Award for best new author, as well as being selected as one of the books of the year by \u003cem\u003eCulturas\u003c\/em\u003e, the arts and culture supplement of the Spanish newspaper \u003cem\u003ePúblico\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eGranta\u003c\/em\u003e also named her one of their top twenty-two Spanish writers under the age of thirty-five. She contributes to cultural magazines such as \u003cem\u003eEl Mundo\u003c\/em\u003e newspaper's \u003cem\u003eEl Cultural\u003c\/em\u003e, to \u003cem\u003eÍnsula\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLetras Libres\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eQuimera\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTuria\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCalle 20\u003c\/em\u003e, and to the newspapers \u003cem\u003ePúblico\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEl País\u003c\/em\u003e. She writes literary reviews for \u003cem\u003eQué Leer\u003c\/em\u003e and contributions for the blog \"La tormenta en un vaso.\" She also teaches creative writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristina MacSweeney received the 2016 Valle Inclan prize for her translation of Valeria Luiselli's \u003cem\u003eThe Story of My Teeth\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAmong Strange Victims\u003c\/em\u003e (Daniel Saldaña París) was a finalist in the 2017 Best Translated Book Award. Among the other authors she has translated are: Elvira Navarro (\u003cem\u003eA Working Woman\u003c\/em\u003e), Verónica Gerber Bicecci (\u003cem\u003eEmpty Set\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cem\u003e Palabras migrantes\/Migrant Words\u003c\/em\u003e), and Julián Herbert (\u003cem\u003eTomb Song; The House of the Pain of Others\u003c\/em\u003e). She is currently working on a second novel by Daniel Saldaña París. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.1 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 09, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Awards (2021)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768851726624,"sku":"9781949641097","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/00a9e95c012ec38b9fd2d3f19605ff07.webp?v=1780338836","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/rabbit-island-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}