Reservoir Bitches
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025
$28.00
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
2 September 2024
Summary
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
A debut linked story collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny fiction from Mexico.
Life’s a bitch. That’s why you gotta rattle her cage, even if she’s foaming at the mouth.
In the linked stories of Reservoir Bitches, thirteen Mexican women prod the bitch that is Life as they fight, sew, skirt, cheat, cry, and lie their way through their tangled circumstances. From the all-powerful …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761380419 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761380419 |
| Author: | Dahlia de la Cerda |
| Publisher: | Scribe Publications |
| Imprint: | Scribe Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 2 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 206g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 136mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Dahlia de la Cerda
Dahlia de la Cerda (Author)
Dahlia de la Cerda is a writer and activist based in Aguascalientes, Mexico. She is the author of Reservoir Bitches, which was longlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize. Its Spanish original, Perras de Reserva, won the 2019 Premio Nacional de Cuento Joven Comala. De la Cerda is also the cofounder of the feminist organisation Morras Help Morras.
Julia Sanches (Translator)
Julia Sanches translates literature from Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan into English. Born in Brazil, she now lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Heather Cleary (Translator)
Heather Cleary is an award-winning translator of poetry and prose whose work has been recognised by English PEN, the National Book Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation, among others.
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