Fernanda Trías

Sep 24, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Fernanda Trías |Heather Cleary |Pola Oloixarac |Adam Morris

Horror novels function as a way of controlling our fears and the unknown, transforming it into something tangible and… temporary. There’s something comforting about picking up a book, feeling terrified and setting it back down, the fear always contained in the pages. During Covid, while some people turned to baking, I sought out Latina writers from across the Americas who are bringing on a new renaissance in dark thrillers in both familiar and innovative ways.

Aug 3, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Fernanda Trías |Heather Cleary

In a coastal city reeling from a new and dangerous climate catastrophe, a woman finds herself unmoored from the life she knew and from a certain future. As ill winds and waters beat about her hometown, she plans to escape but remains there due to obligations and logistical challenges. PINK SLIME, a slim and quietly powerful novel by Uruguayan author Fernanda Trías and translated into English by Heather Cleary, follows her as she navigates a dark reality.

Jul 31, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Tobias Carroll |Ahmed Naji |Mira Marcinów |Fernanda Trías

From NYRB Classics | Mourning a Breast by Xi Xi, translated from the Chinese by Jennifer Feeley | Fiction | 320 pages | ISBN 9781681378220 | US$18.95What the publisher says: “In 1989, the acclaimed Hong Kong writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Jun 29, 2024 | nytimes.com | Fernanda Trías |Heather Cleary

PINK SLIME, by Fernanda Trías. Translated by Heather Cleary. The Uruguayan writer Fernanda Trías's second novel to be published in English, "Pink Slime" - which was the winner of several literary awards in Uruguay and is elegantly translated here by Heather Cleary - is a well-imagined, often poetically beautiful plague story. The tale takes place in a small coastal city where an environmental disaster has unspooled.

Feb 1, 2024 | citylights.com | Fernanda Trías

"Una novela excepcional." –ABC Cultural"Como una boa constrictor asfixiando lentamente a su presa, Trías te atrapa entre sus garras mucho antes de que te des cuenta de lo que está pasando." –Jeremy Garber, Powell's Bookshop"Muchos han leído La azotea como una perturbadora historia de amor entre un padre y su hija, pero esta novela es mucho más que eso.