Not a River
A Novel
by Selva Almada
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Pub Date May 07 2024 | Archive Date Apr 30 2024
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Description
* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE *
It’s not a river, it’s this river.
A hot, motionless afternoon. Enero and El Negro are fishing with Tilo, their dead friend’s teenage son. After hours of struggling with a hooked stingray, Enero aims his revolver into the water and shoots it. They hang the ray’s enormous corpse from a tree at their campsite and let it go to rot, drawing the attention of some local islanders and igniting a long-simmering fury toward outsiders and their carelessness. It’s only the two sisters—the teenage nieces of one of the locals, Aguirre—with their hair black as cowbird feathers and giving off the scent of green grass, who are curious about the trio and invite them to a dance. But the girls are not quite as they seem. As night approaches and tensions rise, Enero and El Negro return to the charged memories of their friend who years ago drowned in this same river.
As uneasy and saturated as a prophetic dream, Not a River is another extraordinary novel by Selva Almada about masculinity, guilt, and irrepressible desire, written in a style that is spare and timeless.
Advance Praise
“Told with the hallucinatory atmosphere of a dream, this astonishing, stark novel doesn’t turn away from the hypnotic and disturbing effects of violence. Not a River plunges us straight into the depths of its silences, bracingly so—the longer the quiet goes, the more terrible the rupture.”—Manuel Muñoz
“A virtuoso literary work. . . . Flashbacks and side scenes deepen the story which curls and twines like a thrusting tropical vine through the past, roping in sisters, wives, old lovers, boyhood adventures, and jealousies.”—Annie Proulx
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781644452851 |
| PRICE | $16.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 104 |
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Featured Reviews
Ezra F, Librarian
I loved the crackling dialogue in this fever dream of novella, which Annie McDermott has perfectly matched in both pacing and tone. I'll read anything she translates, and anything Graywolf publishes.
Denise P, Reviewer
I love Selma Almada’s Dead Girls so I was super excited to see Not A River being released!
I will admit that I was a bit lost in the beginning but around halfway through the book, I couldn’t put it down. I loved how it all came together.
I will be rereading this book soon because I want to go back and see what I missed the first time!! Beautiful prose and dream like story! I’m excited to read more from this author. I’m just amazed at the translator.
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