Rabbit Island by Elvira Navarro, translated by Christina MacSweeney [in Booklist]
20 Jan, by in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories, Spanish, Translation
Spare in pages, Elvira Navarro’s collection of 11 short stories proves dense with disconnection, dysfunction, and dismay as families fray, couples sunder, and animals are brutalized. Set between the seemingly familiar and elusively surreal, Navarro’s tales unsettle readers through oneiric landscapes. In “Rabbit Island,” a non-inventor...