Bøger af Pilar Quintana

In the jungle, dreams and nightmares coexistColombia's Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. In this constant struggle, nothing is taken for granted. Damaris lives with her fisherman husband in a shack on a bluff overlooking the sea. Childless and at that age "when women dry up," as her uncle puts it, she is eager to adopt an orphaned puppy. But this act may bring more than just affection into her home. The Bitch is written in a prose as terse as the villagers, with storms-both meteorological and emotional-lurking around each corner. Beauty and dread live side by side in this poignant exploration or the many meanings of motherhood and love."Artist that she is, Pilar Quintana uncovers wounds we didn't know we had, shows us their beauty, and then throws a handful of salt into them."YURI HERRERA, author of Signs Preceding the End of the World"Pilar Quintana weaves human nature and the chaos of the universe together with extraordinary mastery. This is a novel full of mysteries about unfulfilled desire, guilt, and the places where love still exists." GABRIELA ALEMÁN, author of Poso Wells"Pilar Quintana has created a psychological tale that sweeps and drags us like the waves of the sea."El Tiempo

A 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE FINALISTBy the Colombian author of The Bitch, a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and PEN Awards Winner"An eight-year-old girl takes in a series of troubling events in this luminous and transfixing account of fractured family life from Colombian writer Quintana (The Bitch). Readers will be dazzled." -Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEWClaudia is an impressionable eight-year-old girl, trying to understand the world through the eyes of the adults around her. But her hardworking father hardly speaks a word, while her unhappy mother spends her days reading celebrity lifestyle magazines, tending to her enormous collection of plants, and filling Claudia's head with stories about women who end their lives in tragic ways. Then an interloper arrives, disturbing the delicate balance of family life, and Claudia's world starts falling apart. In this strikingly vivid portrait of Cali, Colombia, Claudia's acute observations remind us that children are capable of discerning extremely complex realities even if they cannot fully understand them. In Abyss, Quintana leads us brilliantly into the lonely heart of the child we have all once been, driven by fear of abandonment.

Cuentos de Pilar Quintana que no dejarán a nadie indiferenteLos ocho relatos que componen este libro exploran las más fuertes pulsiones detrás de las relaciones de pareja: el amor, la obsesión, los celos, la rabia, la apatía, la ternura, pero sobre todo el deseo. Las fantasías, perversiones y atrevimientos sexuales son los grandes protagonistas de este volumen de cuentos, en el que, entre el realismo y la fantasía, entre lo descarnado, el humor y la ironía, y con un lenguaje llano y rico a la vez, Pilar Quintana consigue sorprender e inquietar a los lectores.

the English-language debut of an outstanding Colombian writer about the many meanings of motherhood and love.

Tæven er en lille, men kompleks roman om barnløshed og moderkærlighed, om skyldfølelse og ensomhed i menneskelige relationer. Damaris bor sammen med sin mand, Rogelio, ved den colombianske Stillehavskyst som er alt andet end en postkortidyl. Det er en afkrog af verden hvor livet er usikkert, og drømmene lever side om side med de værste mareridt. Alle føler sig indespærret, ikke kun i det trykkende landskab mellem regnskoven og det havet, men også i deres forkrampede indre liv. Pilar Quintana skildrer mesterligt menneskets natur med dens uopfyldte ønsker, skyldfølelser og kærlighed. Pilar Quintana: Født i Colombia i 1972. Hun har udgivet fire romaner og en novellesamling. I 2007 var hun en af de 39 mest fremtrædende latinamerikanske forfattere under 39 år som blev udvalgt til Hay-festivalen. Hun har modtaget La Mar de Letras-prisen for sin bog Coleccionistas de polvos raros (Kvinderne som samlede på besynderlige knald), og i 2018 vandt hun Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana-prisen for Tæven som er hendes første bog på dansk.