Not a River
A Novel
by Selva Almada
Narrated by Andrew Joseph Perez
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Pub Date Mar 11 2025 | Archive Date Mar 11 2025
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Description
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.
A Note From the Publisher
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
Advance Praise
“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
“Told with the hallucinatory atmosphere of a dream, this astonishing, stark novel doesn’t turn away from the hypnotic and disturbing effects of violence. The title reads like a refusal in a nightmare, as we round the bends of our present lives and resist the inevitable encounter with the past. 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
Available Editions
| EDITION | Audiobook, Unabridged |
| ISBN | 9781696618502 |
| PRICE | $10.99 (USD) |
| DURATION | 2 Hours, 15 Minutes |
