From the author of National Book Award 2021 Finalist The Bitch Claudia is an impressionable eightyearold 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 Claudias head with stories about women who end their lives in tragic ways. Then an interloper arrives, disturbing the delicate balance of family life, and Claudias world starts falling apart. In this strikingly vivid portrait of Cali, Colombia, Claudias 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.

Binding: Paperback;168 pages; Publisher: World Editions Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 338 g; Dimensions: 128 x 203 x 19

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