{"product_id":"strange-water-9781771839136","title":"Strange Water","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis debut collection by acclaimed translator Sarah Moses is rooted as much in sound and language as it is in story. The 75 tiny fictions that populate \u003cem\u003eStrange Water \u003c\/em\u003eare evocative soundscapes, seascapes, skyscapes, landscapes, often magical and mysterious, sometimes unsettling. Each story is rooted in a single sentence--a dream sentence, a mistake sentence, a sentence uttered when the speaker thought no one was listening--whose tendrils reach into unexpected places. Moses's attention to the individual word and to sound is echoed in her attention to the physical presence of the line on the page. These compressed-to-bursting-point narratives--preoccupied with bad-mannered neighbours, misunderstandings, coincidences and serendipities, dream states, and subtropical climes--take place in constant movement: between languages, between homes, between continents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Moses is a Canadian writer and literary translator from Spanish and French. Her translations include Agustina Bazterrica's \u003ci\u003eTender Is the Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNineteen Claws and a Black Bird \u003c\/i\u003e(Pushkin Press \/ Scribner, 2020 and 2023) and \u003ci\u003eDie, My Love \u003c\/i\u003eby Ariana Harwicz (Charco Press, 2017), which was longlisted for the International Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Premio Valle Incl?n, and the Best Translated Book Award. With Tom?s Downey, she co-translated \u003ci\u003eSos una sola persona \u003c\/i\u003e(Socios Fundadores, 2020), a selection of poems by Stuart Ross. Forthcoming publications include \u003ci\u003eHead in the Clouds\u003c\/i\u003e by Roc?o Araya (Elsewhere Editions), a co-translation of Julio Cort?zar's letters with Anne McLean (Archipelago Books) and \u003ci\u003eThe Place Where Birds Die\u003c\/i\u003e, stories by Tom?s Downey (Invisible Publishing). Sarah has written one chapbook of fictions in Spanish, \u003ci\u003e as they say \u003c\/i\u003e(Socios Fundadores, 2016), and one in English, \u003ci\u003eThose Problems\u003c\/i\u003e (Proper Tales Press, 2016). \u003ci\u003eStrange Water\u003c\/i\u003e is her first full-length collection. She lives in Buenos Aires and Toronto, where she's from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Guernica Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50869503951122,"sku":"9781771839136","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9b9d92c9-6bf5-4625-94c5-9e813a79a5ff.jpg?v=1737760330","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/strange-water-9781771839136","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}