Pilar Quintana

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• Los abismos

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  National Book Award 2023 · Finalist

  Abyss

  Los abismos

  Pilar Quintana · 49 when first published

  Novel · 168 pages · Family, Coming of age

  Translated by Lisa Dillman

  AIAI-generated summary:In Cali, a girl watches her parents' troubled marriage with unusual sharpness, trying to piece together what the adults leave unsaid or only half say.

• La perra

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  National Book Award 2020 · Finalist

  The Bitch

  La perra

  Pilar Quintana · 45 when first published

  Novel · Family

  Translated by Lisa Dillman

  AIAI-generated summary:In a small village on Colombia's Pacific coast, a Black woman no longer young, who has spent years trying and failing to have a child with her partner, adopts a puppy.