Selva Almada

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• No es un río

  In English

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  International Booker 2024 · Shortlist

  Not a River

  No es un río

  Selva Almada · 47 when first published

  Novel · 99 pages

  Translated by Annie McDermott

  AIAI-generated summary:Two men, Enero and El Negro, take Tilo, the teenage son of their dead friend Eusebio, fishing, and through a long night of drinking, cooking and talk, ghosts of the past and present close in.

• Ladrilleros

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  Warwick Prize 2022 · Shortlist

  Brickmakers

  Ladrilleros

  Selva Almada · 40 when first published

  Novel · 160 pages · Family, Love

  Translated by Annie McDermott

  AIAI-generated summary:In a provincial town, Marciano Miranda and Pajarito Tamai, sons of two feuding families, take on their fathers' old hatreds, while desire draws them in a way the rigid codes of their world cannot allow.