{"product_id":"rabbit-island-9781949641097","title":"Rabbit Island","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Two Lines Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50478362067218,"sku":"9781949641097","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c9eb82e5-5b42-4bd4-b7dd-681e6cee85d3.jpg?v=1730297654","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rabbit-island-9781949641097","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}