Birds in the mouth and other stories, by Samanta Schweblin

A good story can be as long as a song. Samantha Schweblin makes literature an audition of little lives accompanied by the symphony of their circumstances. Samanta's stories awaken that infinite musical reverberation of pleasure and memory. What remains, something that must move like an echo through the cosmos every time someone discovers that phrase that invites us to repeat it sotto voce, in the low frequency of unforgettable appointments.

Because mastering the art of the good story today is transcending. Halfway between poetry and novel, between lyrical and prose, what this author tells us at times rises to accompany us in a dizzying fall. Nothing to lose and nothing to gain. Only the sensation that certain inertias stop to observe the world from other brief focuses that in their unity provide the perfect mosaic discovered at the end, in the distance, with its full meaning.

Pájaros de en la boca y otros cuentos (Pájaros de en la boca y otros cuentos) is the best way to enter the fascinating universe of those who, after being nominated for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017 with Distancia de rescue, is one of the voices of Hispanic letters with the most projection in the current international literary panorama.

This compilation includes twenty stories already published in previous editions of his short story books and in international editions, as well as an unpublished story published by the magazine Granta. The selection, carried out by the author herself, forms an anthology of her best short prose to date, as well as an indispensable piece of contemporary Argentine literature.

Heir to the most prestigious literary tradition, in the vein of Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Connor, Schweblin handles language in an extraordinary way, with a sober and effective prose at the service of stories that move on the border between the real and the real. fantastic. Disturbing and disconcerting, Schweblin's tales pose an enigma that provokes and deeply captures the reader.

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