Mouthful of Birds : LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE, 2019 by Megan McDowell


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A?A SPELLBINDINGLY CREEPY COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, FROM AN ARGENTINIAN LITERARY STAR'The Grimm brothers and Franz Kafka pay a visit to Argentina in Samanta Schweblin's darkly humorous tales.' J.M. CoetzeeA?Spine-tingling and unexpected, unearthly and strange, the stories ofA?Mouthful of BirdsA?are impossible to forget. The crunch of a bird's wing. A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers. A crimson flash of blood across an artist's canvas. Samanta Schweblin's writing expertly blurs the line between the surreal and the everyday, pulling the reader into a world that is at once nightmarish and beautiful. An exhilarating tour de force guaranteed to leave the pulse racing. 'This is our world, and sharp-focused, but stripped of its usual meanings... Brutal violence is twisted into horrific, intensely experienced art.'A?GuardianA?
Binding: Paperback / softback

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