{"product_id":"of-beasts-and-fowls-9781960385178","title":"Of Beasts and Fowls","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Spanish National Fiction Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummer ends, the season changes, and Coro, an artist frightened off by what her own paintings may represent, gets in her car and drives for hours in the middle of the night until she chances upon Betania, an isolated house existing in a world of its own. It's an unfamiliar place inhabited exclusively by women who, strangely, all seem to know her. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike adherents of an ancient cult, the women of Betania all dress the same, carry out strange rites and celebrations, and live alongside goats and innumerable dogs against a landscape dominated by an immense, imposing mountain that seems to block out the sunlight. Theirs is a hierarchical, closed, and restless universe where--as the other women tell her and despite her attempts to escape the area--Coro may finally discover what it means to be part of something.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \"Hotel California\" of the human heart, Pilar Ad?n's Of Beasts and Fowl is a novel about the things that we do without knowing why, but that have an explanation that perhaps we will some day come to understand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePilar Ad?n\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Madrid in 1971 and is the author of four novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Mayflies \u003c\/i\u003e(forthcoming from Open Letter), several short story collection, and four volumes of poetry. She received the Ojo Critico Prize for \u003ci\u003eViajes inocentes\u003c\/i\u003e, and won the Premio Francisco Umbral al Libro del A?o, Premio C?lamo, and the Premio de la Critica for \u003ci\u003eOf Beasts and Fowls\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatie Whittemore\u003c\/b\u003e translates from the Spanish. Full-length translations include works by Sara Mesa, Javier Serena, Aroa Moreno Dur?n, Lara Moreno, Nuria Labari, and Katixa Agirre. Forthcoming translations include novels by Jon Bilbao, Juan G?mez B?rcena, Almudena S?nchez, Aliocha Coll, and Pilar Ad?n. She received an NEA Translation Fellowship in 2022 to translate Moreno's \u003cem\u003eIn Case We Lose Power\u003c\/em\u003e, and was a finalist for the Spain-USA Prize for her translation of Katixa Agirre's \u003ci\u003eMothers Don't.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Letter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50895468134674,"sku":"9781960385178","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0abb20de-f6d4-4f67-8033-d82a2cee98f7.jpg?v=1738272843","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/of-beasts-and-fowls-9781960385178","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}