Seeing Red (Paperback)
Lina Meruane (author), Megan McDowell (translator)- In stock online
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781786493156
Number of pages: 176
Weight: 168 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 13 mm
Edition: Main
MEDIA REVIEWS
Nerve-jangling... Defiantly discomforting... Highly impressive * Daily Mail *
Outstanding - complex yet graceful, gnarly yet beautiful. The best book I've read this year. -- Sara Baume, author of Spill Simmer Falter Wither
A scorching examination of how being utterly dependent on someone - even someone you love - can make you a monster. * Literary Hub, 13 Translated Books by Women You Need to Read *
Astonishing... Burns with vigour and urgency * Los Angeles Times *
Viscous, repulsive, and beautiful * New Yorker *
Stunning... Black and bitter and bloody and beautiful * The Nation *
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“Disappointing”
I was very disappointed with this book.
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