Animals At The End Of The World Animales Del Fin Del Mundo Gloria Susana Esquivel by Gloria Susana Esquivel, Robin Myers (translation) 9781477321249, 9781477321256, 1477321241, 147732125X instant download after payment.

Animals at the End of the World begins with an explosion, which six-year-old Inés mistakes for the end of the world that she has long feared. In the midst of the chaos, she meets the maid’s granddaughter, Mariá, who becomes her best friend & with whom she navigates the adult world in her grandparents’ confined house. Together, they escape the house & confront the “animals” that populate Bogotá in the 1980s. But Inés soon realizes she cannot count on either María or her preoccupied & conflicted parents. Alone, she must learn to decipher her outer & inner worlds, confronting both armies of beasts & episodes of domestic chaos. In the process, she also learns what it means to test boundaries, break rules, & cope with the consequences. 

The first novel by Colombian author Gloria Susana Esquivel, Animals at the End of the World is a poetic & moving coming-of-age story that lingers long after its final page.

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Robin Myers is a Mexico City-based poet & Spanish-to-English translator. Her latest book-length translations include In Vitro by Isabel Zapata (2023), Bariloche by Andrés Neuman (2023), The Book of Explanations by Tedi López Mills (2022), Copy by Dolores Dorantes (2022), & The Dream of Every Cell by Maricela Guerrero (2022). Other translations have appeared in Granta, The Baffler, Kenyon Review, The Common, Harvard Review, Two Lines, & Waxwing.