{"product_id":"9781960385178","title":"Of Beasts and Fowls","description":"Author: Pilar Adon\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781960385178\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Open Letter\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 12 Feb 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 220\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of Spain'sPremio Nacionalde Narrativa in 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A funerary poem about a bird flying underground; a psychodrama of two sisters drowning in the mirror of memory; a center of a necrophilic labyrinth; Virginia Woolf's Rhoda lost in John Hawkes's \u003ci\u003eTravesty\u003c\/i\u003e. Pilar Adon's novel is the most haunting I have read in years.\"-Mircea Crtrescu, winner of the Dublin Literary Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummer is ending and Coro, an artist frightened of what her paintings of her dead sister may represent, gets in her car one night and starts to drive, with no plan or destination. After a wrong turn down a narrow dirt road, she runs out of gas outside the gates of a large and isolated house called Bethany, a place inhabited exclusively by a small group of women who seem to exist in a closed, hierarchical system a world apart. The women of Bethany live closely with the natural and animal world, celebrate rites and rituals, and, like devotees of an ancestral cult, all dress the same. Most unsettlingly, they seem to know who Coro is already. In fact, they have been expecting her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow the women came to live in Bethany, why they believe Coro is destined to be there, and most pressing, why won't they let her leave are questions Coro must face as she struggles between the instinct to escape and the sense that something larger is at work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Bethany's careful balance is disturbed-with violent consequences-by the appearance of a mysterious man who claims the house and land are his, Coro will find herself forced to meet her own ghosts, reckon with her choices, and accept that Bethany might just be where she belongs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of Spain's Premio Nacionalde Narrativa in 2023, \u003ci\u003eOf Beasts and Fowls \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces a grand talent new to English audiences in a haunting novel rife with natural descriptions, signs and symbols, and a sense of the uncanny.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46875647934622,"sku":"ADS-9781960385178","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781960385178.jpg?v=1779754624","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781960385178","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}