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The Bitch

The Bitch

Quintana, Pilar

Paperback

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN13: 9798217434749
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: Sep 1 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.13 Depth: 7.88
Language: English
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATION

A perfect book. --Kiran Desai, author of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

Unforgettable. . . a powerful, jolting tale about class, motherhood and rage. --The Guardian

In this intense, spare, brilliantly observed novel, a woman's dangerously primal feelings are awakened when she adopts an orphaned puppy

On a bluff overlooking Colombia's rough Pacific coast, at the edge of the jungle--a world where nothing is taken for granted -Damaris lives in a shack with her fisherman husband. Her dream of a child unfulfilled and the warmth of her marriage cooled, she has reached the age when women dry up, as her uncle puts it. When the opportunity arises, she takes in a motherless puppy with eagerness and immediate affection. She does not yet know the risk she is taking in forging a bond that touches her most painful losses and her tenderest yearnings.

In prose as terse as the villagers Damaris lives among, The Bitch evokes the double-edged force of the instinct to nurture and the desperate desire to be nurtured in turn.

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