| Cockfight Contributor(s): Ampuero, Marķa Fernanda (Author), Riddle, Frances (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1936932822 ISBN-13: 9781936932825 Publisher: Feminist Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Hispanic & Latino - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: 863.7 |
| LCCN: 2019035462 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.35 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Latino - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Demographic Orientation - Small Town |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This Ecuadorian short story collection explores domestic horrors and everyday violence, a grotesque, unflinching portrait of twenty-first-century Latin America (Publishers Weekly). "Ampuero's literary voice is tough and beautiful at once: her stories are exquisite and dangerous objects." --Yuri Herrera, author of Signs Preceding the End of the World Named one of the ten best fiction books of 2018 by the New York Times en Espa ol, Cockfight is the debut work by Ecuadorian writer and journalist Mar a Fernanda Ampuero. In lucid and compelling prose, Ampuero sheds light on the hidden aspects of the home: the grotesque realities of family, coming of age, religion, and class struggle. A family's maids witness a horrible cycle of abuse, a girl is auctioned off by a gang of criminals, and two sisters find themselves at the mercy of their spiteful brother. With violence masquerading as love, characters spend their lives trapped reenacting their past traumas. Heralding a brutal and singular new voice, Cockfight explores the power of the home to both create and destroy those within it. |