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Nineteen claws and a black bird : stories / Agustina Bazterrica ; translated from the Spanish by Sarah Moses.

by Bazterrica, Agustina Maria, 1974-

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Scribner, 2023.

Violence -- Fiction.

Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction.

Argentina -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.

Argentina -- Social conditions -- 1983- -- Fiction.

9781668012666 (trade pbk.)

Alternate title:

19 claws and a blackbird

x, 154 p. ; 22 cm.

Translated from the Spanish.

A light, swift, and monstrous sound -- Roberto -- Unamuno's boxes -- Candy pink -- Anita and happiness -- Dishwater -- Earth -- Perfect symmetry -- The wolf's breath -- Teicher vs. Nietzsche -- The dead -- Elena-Marie Sandoz -- The slowness of pleasure -- No tears -- The continuous equality of the circumference -- A hole hides a house -- Hell -- Architecture -- Mary Carminum -- The solitary ones.

From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision of the human experience emerges in complex, unexpected ways--often unsettling, sometimes thrilling, and always profound. In "Roberto," a girl claims to have a rabbit between her legs. A woman's neighbor jumps to his death in "A Light, Swift, and Monstrous Sound," and in "Candy Pink," a woman fails to contend with a difficult breakup in five easy steps. Written in Bazterrica's signature clever, vivid style, these stories question love, friendship, family relationships, and unspeakable desires.

Dystopian fiction.

Spanish fiction -- Translations into English.

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