Dogs of summer
Abreu, Andrea, 1995-2022
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It is June and Shit is sad. She knows she will not get to leave her neighbourhood that summer, and the beach is far, far away. And that clouds like the bottom of a donkey's belly will hover all summer over her town, high among the volcanoes of northern Tenerife. But Shit - our nine-year-old narrator - has a best friend, Isora. Shit likes everything about Isora. The colour of her arms and her hair and her eyes. Her handwriting and the way she wrote the letter g with a huge tail. The way she called her shit because poop was a beautiful thing like the mist round the pines. But she envies her too. Envies her grits and gut. The way she talks to grown ups. The fact that she had got her period and had pubes on her minky. As the summer goes on, Shit finds it increasingly hard to keep up with Isora - one year older and growing up at full tilt without her. When Shit's submissiveness veers into obsession and a painful sexual awakening, desire becomes indistinguishable from intimate violence.
Main title:
Dogs of summer / Andrea Abreu ; translated by Julia Sanches.
Author:
Abreu, Andrea, 1995-, authorSanches, Julia, translator
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022.©2022
Collation:
169 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes:
First published in Spain as Panza de burro by Editorial Barrett in 2020.Translated from the Spanish.
ISBN:
97814746240779781474624077
Dewey class:
863.7
Language:
EnglishSpanish
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BRN:
512762
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Fiction - General | ABRE | Available |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - General | ABRE | Available |