Longlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated Literature • Named a BEST BOOK of 2024 by NPR, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, and ScreenRant • “The disconcerting familiarity of this strange, windswept world will haunt you.” —Esquire A hair-raising, poetic novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them edges toward apocalypse. In a city ravaged by a mysterious plague, a woman tries to understand why her world is falling apart. An algae bloom has poisoned the previously pristine air that blows in from the sea. Inland, a secretive corporation churns out the only food anyone can afford—a revolting pink paste, made of an unknown substance. In the short, desperate breaks between deadly windstorms, our narrator stubbornly tends to her few remaining relationships: with her difficult but vulnerable mother; with the ex-husband for whom she still harbors feelings; with the boy she nannies, whose parents sent him away even as terrible threats loomed. Yet as conditions outside deteriorate further, her commitment to remaining in place only grows—even if staying means being left behind. An evocative elegy for a safe, clean world, Pink Slime is buoyed by humor and its narrator’s resiliency. This vivid and unforgettable novel explores the place where love, responsibility, and self-preservation converge.
Sobre o autor(a)
Trías, Fernanda
Fernanda Trías nasceu em Montevidéu (1976). É escritora, tradutora e professora de criação literária. Publicou as novelas Cuaderno para un solo ojo, La azotea, La ciudad invencible e Mugre rosa, e o livro de contos No soñarás flores. Mugre rosa foi selecionado pelo New York Times em Espanhol como um dos melhores dez livros de 2020, obteve o prêmio residência SEGIB-Eñe-Casa de Velázquez (Espanha, 2018), o Prêmio Nacional de Literatura (Uruguai, 2020), o Bartolomé Hidalgo (Uruguai, 2021) e o Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2021 da FIL de Guadalajara. Alguns de seus livros foram traduzidos ao inglês, francês, dinamarquês e italiano, e ainda se preparam traduções a outras cinco línguas. Atualmente vive em Bogotá. Mugre rosa, traduzido como Gosma rosa para o português, é o seu primeiro livro a ser publicado no Brasil, pela Moinhos. |
| ISBN | 9781668049785 |
| Autor(a) | Trías, Fernanda |
| Editora | Scribner |
| Ano de edição | 2025 |
| Páginas | 240 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |
| Dimensões | 18,80 X 13,20 |