Pink slime / Fernanda Trías ; translated by Heather Cleary
- Bib ID:
- 10002434
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Trías, Fernanda, 1976-, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2023
- 1 online resource (193 pages)
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB 1.5MB
- ISBN:
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- 1761385224
- 9781761385223
- Summary:
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Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolomé-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Prize. A port city is in the grips of an ecological crisis. The river has filled with toxic algae, and a deadly 'red wind' blows through its streets; much of the coast has been evacuated as the wealthy migrate inland to safety, leaving the rest to shelter in abandoned houses as blackouts and food shortages abound. The unnamed narrator is one of those who has stayed. She spends her days trying to disentangle herself from the two relationships that had once meant everything to her, and looking after the young boy who's been placed in her care. As the world in which they move becomes smaller, she reflects on the collapse of the other emotional ties in her life and the emergence of a radical yet tender solitude. With striking prose and vivid characters, the multi-award-winning Pink Slime offers profound reflections on motherhood, marriage, and caregiving, set against the backdrop of a crumbling city.
- Full contents:
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- Intro
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraphs
- Why did you try to become a saint?
- When the fog rolled in
- Once upon a time
- The few taxis on the rambla
- Imagine you met me today
- My mother was right
- Tell me
- The beginning is never the beginning
- Who said that?
- Mauro will be back at noon
- So what if I leave?
- Mauro had come back in a terrible mood
- And what will you look for there?
- The phone rang at seven in the morning
- Ha ha ha
- It wasn't unusual for us to wake up without power
- Which sounds better.
- I left the plazas behind me like distance markers along the avenue
- Where are you?
- The losses were greater than anticipated
- Then
- Two trees fell in the plaza and the wind howled all night
- You're angry
- A team of divers went into the river to investigate
- I asked so little of you
- I went out in the afternoon when the fog was at its most dense
- Imagine you told me everything you thought
- Actually
- Explain it to me
- Nothing is yours until someone else loses or discards it
- What is silence?
- That night I made rice with tuna and mayonnaise
- Everything has an edge.
- I threw the doors to my bedroom closets open
- Inside nothing
- Trucks arrived and took everyone away
- Can you imagine the space between your eyes?
- In a kidney transplant.
- We all expected that the birds would meet the same fate as the fish
- In the end
- Days passed from one blackout to the next
- A cloud is a cloud no matter how far it is from the ground
- When I opened my eyes the next morning
- That's impossible
- A beat-up black car circled the plaza
- Do you remember that day?
- It took me over half an hour to reach the front desk
- The serpent molts and is remade
- I took the elevator upstairs
- It would be like a museum
- I can't remember the last time I saw her
- If you're given a box full of air.
- Notes:
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- Description based upon print version of record.
- General.
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Awards:
- Winner, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, 2021.
- Subject:
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- Apocalyptic fiction
- Environmental degradation -- Fiction
- Environmental disasters -- Fiction
- Epidemics -- Fiction
- Loneliness -- Fiction
- Plague -- Fiction
- Port cities -- Fiction
- Reflection (Philosophy) -- Fiction
- Toxic algae -- Fiction
- Women -- Fiction
- Environmental disasters
- Fiction - Literary
- Fiction / Disaster
- Fiction / Dystopian
- Fiction / World Literature / South America (general)
- Fiction / World Literature / Uruguay
- Fiction in translation
- Fiction: general & literary
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Narrative theme: Interior life
- Narrative theme: Love & relationships
- Port cities
- Reflection (Philosophy)
- Speculative fiction
- Toxic algae
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- Copyright:
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2023
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