# Rabbit Island - Hardcover

by **Elvira Navarro** (Author), **Christina Macsweeney** (Translator)

**Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature**

These eleven stories from one of Granta's "Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists" combine gritty surrealism with explosive interior meditations, traversing the fickle, often terrifying terrain between madness and freedom. In the title story, a so-called "non-inventor" brings snow-white rabbits to an island inhabited exclusively by birds, with horrific results. In "Myotragus" a privileged man's understanding of the world is violently disrupted by the sight of a creature long thought extinct. Elsewhere in these stories that map dingy hotel rooms, shape-shifting cities, and graveyards, an unsightly "paw" grows from a writer's earlobe and a grandmother floats silently in the corner of the room.

### Author Biography

Elvira Navarro won the Community of Madrid's Young Writers Award in 2004. Her first book, _La ciudad en invierno_ (_The City in Winter_), published in 2007, was well received by the critics, and her second, _La ciudad feliz_ (_The Happy City_, Hispabooks, 2013) was given the twenty-fifth Jaén Fiction Award and the fourth Tormenta Award for best new author, as well as being selected as one of the books of the year by _Culturas_, the arts and culture supplement of the Spanish newspaper _Público_. _Granta_ also named her one of their top twenty-two Spanish writers under the age of thirty-five. She contributes to cultural magazines such as _El Mundo_ newspaper's _El Cultural_, to _Ínsula_, _Letras Libres_, _Quimera_, _Turia_, and _Calle 20_, and to the newspapers _Público_ and _El País_. She writes literary reviews for _Qué Leer_ and contributions for the blog "La tormenta en un vaso." She also teaches creative writing.

Christina MacSweeney received the 2016 Valle Inclan prize for her translation of Valeria Luiselli's _The Story of My Teeth_, and _Among Strange Victims_ (Daniel Saldaña París) was a finalist in the 2017 Best Translated Book Award. Among the other authors she has translated are: Elvira Navarro (_A Working Woman_), Verónica Gerber Bicecci (_Empty Set_; _Palabras migrantes/Migrant Words_), and Julián Herbert (_Tomb Song; The House of the Pain of Others_). She is currently working on a second novel by Daniel Saldaña París.

**Number of Pages:** 184

**Dimensions:** 0.8 x 8.1 x 5.2 IN

**Publication Date:** February 09, 2021

**Award:** National Book Awards (2021)

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