Mouthful of birds : stories

Author

Samanta Schweblin

Call Number

• FICTION SCHW (CEN, OSH)

Languages

Translated from the Spanish.

Publication Information

New York : Riverhead Books, 2019.

Physical Description

228 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where every shadow and bump in the dark take on huge implications; they leave your pulse racing and the line between the real and the strange blurring.

Notes

"Originally published, in Spanish and in somewhat different form, as Pájaros en la boca by Random House Mondadori in 2010"--Title page verso.

Contents

• Headlights
• Preserves
• Butterflies
• Mouthful of birds
• Santa Claus sleeps at our house
• The digger
• Irman
• The test
• Toward happy civilization
• Olingiris
• My brother Walter
• The merman
• Rage of pestilence
• Heads against concrete
• The size of things
• Underground
• Slowing down
• On the steppe
• A great effort
• The heavy suitcase of Benavides.