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1. Andrea Abreu

Ezelsbuik

Tijdens een broeierige zomer schuimen twee pubermeisjes de straten van een vervallen dorpje af, hoog in de bergen van Noord-Tenerife. Ze delen de straat met schurftige honden, gebedsgenezeressen en bosheksen, verlangen naar het onbereikbare strand, vluchten weg voor een vuilbekkende grootmoeder en eten zoveel ze kunnen terwijl ze dromen van de liefde en dun zijn. En altijd ligt achter hen, aan het oog onttrokken door een grijze nevel, de slapende vulkaan. De tienjarige vertelster – door haar beste vriendin Isora liefkozend shit genoemd – houdt zielsveel van haar vriendin, die brutaal is en geen angst kent. Ze zou net als zij willen zijn, haar willen opeten, in haar willen verdwijnen. Maar aan het einde van de zomer is alles anders. Ezelsbuik is een verslavend spervuur van taal: Andrea Abreu weeft straattaal, songteksten, MSN-taal en landschapsbeschrijvingen aaneen, met een uitzonderlijke eigen stem. ‘Een boek dat je van de eerste tot de laatste bladzijde wegblaast, als een golf die je op het eerste gezicht misschien hebt onderschat. Zonder waarschuwing, met een ongekende kracht. Er zijn goede debuten en er zijn zeer goede debuten, maar zo’n debuut als dit bestond eigenlijk nog niet.’ Der Spiegel ‘Een van de meest opwindende, inventieve en verfrissend zeldzame literaire vondsten.’ El País ‘Ezelsbuik is geschreven in een krachtige literaire taal. Een ongezouten en onbevooroordeeld portret van armoede. Het leven op zijn rauwst.’ Irene Vallejo, schrijver van Papyrus

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So forsch, so furchtlos

»So forsch, so furchtlos« ist eines der aufregendsten Debüts der letzten Jahre, Andrea Abreu der Shootingstar der spanischen Literatur. Ihr Roman über zwei junge Mädchen auf Teneriffa erschien in 19 Ländern und hat die internationale Presse in Aufregung versetzt. Ein heißer Juni auf Teneriffa, hoch oben im Norden der Insel zwischen den Vulkanen, weit ab von den Touristen. Zwei junge Mädchen, beste Freundinnen, versuchen, die Langweile zu bekämpfen. Sie wollen dünn bleiben, indem sie Süßigkeiten erbrechen; sie träumen von glänzenden BMWs, die sie an den Strand bringen, wo sie endlich das Meer genießen könnten, genau wie die Touristen, deren Ferienhäuser ihre Mütter putzen. Aber als aus dem Juni der Juli wird und der Juli in den August übergeht, verwandelt sich die schwelende Liebe der Erzählerin zu ihrer Freundin Isora in ein schmerzhaftes sexuelles Erwachen. Sie versucht, mit Isora Schritt zu halten, muss aber einsehen, dass das Erwachsenwerden ein Weg ist, den man allein gehen muss. Eine sprachgewaltige Erzählung über eine innige Mädchenfreundschaft, die an den Wachstumsschmerzen der Pubertät, an zu viel Liebe und zu großer Lust zerschellt.

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1. Andrea Abreu

Dogs of Summer

"Read this coming-of-age story for its unsparing language and vivid sense of place."—The New York Times“In playful language, Abreu beautifully evokes a land of ‘light stored for so many thousands of years’, and an era of telenovelas and the birth of the internet, in which Pokémon and Bratz dolls give way to sexual discovery.”—John Self, The Guardian“One of the hottest translated novels of late . . . Dogs of Summer does a good job unnerving a reader in any language; it’s about girls navigating the complexities of being on the cusp of puberty as their bodies become increasingly more unrecognizable to them. Abreu captures the unique discomfort of this time through run-on sentences that are experimental and abrasive while also interspersing bachata dance music and chat-room threads.”—Greta Rainbow, Shondaland"Abreu’s novel, in Julia Sanches’s sparkling translation, is a revelation, perfectly capturing a festering summer of meltdowns and shrinking horizons."—Anderson Tepper, The New York Times“Emotionally resonant . . . Abreu’s exhilarating chronicle of a young friendship is not to be missed.”—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)"This frank exploration of the work of growing up as a girl in a place with limited horizons (don’t forget the clouds!) illuminates while it disturbs. This is not Little Women."—Kirkus“Like the portrayals of girls in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, Abreu offers brave and unvarnished renderings of complicated female friendships, painful sexual awakenings (with an LGBTQ twist), and gritty dialects, but she is in a category by herself. Her prose is bold and direct, and her characterization of two similar but different girls on the cusp of adolescence is as vivid as anything being written today.”—June Sawyers, Booklist"This lyrical novel is set in a working-class neighborhood in Tenerife, far from the Canary Islands’ poshresorts. During one oppressively hot summer, the 10-year-old narrator and her best friend Isoraexperience changes in their bodies and their volatile emotions — from love to jealousy, admiration,obsession and submission. The story, laced with Canary Islands dialect and bachata lyrics, builds to a crescendo when desire and violence fuse."—Bill Morris, The Millions"[Abreu] provides a unique perspective into romantic feelings buried within a friendship. Much like EdnaO’Brien’s The Country Girls, Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, and Lorrie Moore’s Who Will Run theFrog Hospital?, the novel is a portrait of the intensity of love, desire, and frenzied obsession at such a pivotal age."—Christina Obolenskaya, Ploughshares"Dogs of Summer is a memorable debut, poetic and vibrant."—Lydia Weintraub, Cleveland Review of Books"Dogs of Summer is a thoroughly immersive story of youth, with all of the inequities and frustrations thatthat implies. It’s also, in Andrea Abreu’s telling and Julia Sanches’s translation, a fascinating study of itsnarrator’s method of seeing the world. The prose, the rhythms, and the sense of place all combine toward a memorable whole."—Tobias Carroll, Words Without Borders"Dogs of Summer is a perfect summer novel that follows two best friends as they come of age and theirfriendship begins to simmer with desire and violence. The writing is a crave inducing mix of bachatalyrics, Canary dialect, and the language of girlhood — gritty, wild, poetic — an exquisite feat by debut author Andrea Abreu and renowned translator Julia Sanches."—Pierce Alquist, Book Riot"Dogs of Summer resists nostalgia and sentimentality while preserving the freshness and vibrancy of the narrator’s voice . . . Tenerife in 2005 offers a vivid depiction of early aughts girlhood that captures the precarity of puberty and the intrusion of the outside world within an isolated community, most notably through the growing impact technology has on everyday life. Unlike Ferrante, Abreu doesn’t shy away from the grittier aspects of girlhood—rather, she revels in all their glory . . . an intimate portrait of girlhood friendship that treads the often precarious waters of obsession, codependence, and sexual violence."—Eliza Browning, Asymptote“A caustic, claustrophobic story of disturbingly sexualised preadolescent children: bored, traumatised, blistering with a mix of envy, tenderness and viciousness . . . sensual and dirty, absurdist and tragic. Abreu’s talent is thrilling to witness.”—Catherine Taylor, The Irish Times"The way that Abreu just very boldly and blatantly captures the narrative voice of a ten-year-old girlcoming-of-age is genius, and from the very first page I was brought right back to my own adolescence."—Ashley Lynne, GateCrashers"As sultry as the summer weather. In playful language, Abreu beautifully evokes an era of telenovelasand the birth of the internet, in which Pokemon and Bratz dolls give way to sexual discovery."—OX Magazine “Whip-smart. Angular. Dreamy yet lucid, and cathartically brutal.”—Brontez Purnell, author of 100 Boyfriends“Bold, dazzling, hilarious. Andrea Abreu is a lively meteorite in the landscape of Hispanic literature.”—Fernanda Melchor, author of Hurricane Season“This slim novel’s scope and intensity are shockingly, magnificently large, and the sentences blast off the pages with all the sordidness and wonder of early adolescence. Readers will be unable to resist the spell of Dogs of Summer, a hilarious, devastating story that is brilliantly attuned to the erotics of friendship, the intoxicating muddle of identification and desire, and the power of both the sublime and the profane. The unforgettable girls at the center of Andrea Abreu’s moving debut are two of the liveliest fictional creations I’ve come across in quite a long time.”—Jamel Brinkley, author of A Lucky Man“Dogs of Summer will thump through your heart and mind. A novel that consumes and sentences to die for.”—Amina Cain, author of Indelicacy“Andrea Abreu’s characters, like her sentences, are bold and wild. Reminiscent of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s The Discomfort of Evening, Abreu’s writing twirls and clacks with tactile precision, like winding a cassette tape with a No. 2 pencil. I’ll return to Dogs of Summer whenever I crave a searing, brutal shot of life.”—Gabriella Burnham, author of It is Wood, It is Stone“Dogs of Summer is like the tide. A force of nature. It drags you. It submerges you. And, all of a sudden, itleaves you stranded on a rich and prophetic insular world of women and low, grey, clouds that mergewith the sea. It is pure poetry. A book that carries you and makes you feel a place.”—Pilar Quintana, author of The Bitch“This is important: I felt envy. Envy over the impossibility of writing something like that myself.”—Sabina Urraca, author of Your Spelling Errors Make the God Child Cry

1. Andrea Abreu

Dogs of Summer

A debut novel about a long, hot summer in the Canary Islands and the friendship between two young girls