Ebook {Epub PDF} Humiliation by Paulina Flores

 · Humiliation by Paulina Flores review – empathetic short stories Poverty and indignity in Chile are explored with skill Many of the stories convey a vulnerability and loss of www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 2 mins.  · Humiliation, translated by Megan McDowell, marks Flores’s arrival and signals her vast potential for portraying the struggles between classes and genders, the intense experience of losing innocence, and the sacrifices and horrendous mistakes people make when they are struggling to parent in a harsh world. I look forward to a novel by this new author exploring these themes in greater depth Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. Humiliation, Paulina Flores’s debut collection of short stories, beautifully translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, is a timely work that provides pertinent backstory to the protests and official repression that have erupted in Chile this fall. As I write this review, hundreds of thousands of Chileans have taken to the streets to protest the right-wing government and gross inequality; at least twenty people have Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.

Название: Humiliation Автор: Paulina Flores Издательство: Ingram Жанр: Публицистика: прочее Серия: isbn: isbn: 0. Аннотация: " Humiliation is a brilliant book that captures the volatility of misunderstandings, the moment when failures matter less than the need to share them." —Alejandro Zambra, author of Multiple. PAULINA FLORES was born in Chile in Humiliation is her first book. In its Spanish-language editions, it won the Roberto Bolaño Prize, the Circle of Art Critics Prize, the Municipal Literature Prize, and was selected as one of the ten best books of the year by the newspaper El País. Paulina Flores was born in Chile in In , she won the Roberto Bolaño Short Story Prize for her story "Qué vergüenza" (Humiliation). Her collection of the same title was published to great acclaim in Chile in

In the opening (title) story, ‘Humiliation’, two young sisters accompany their adored unemployed father to a casting call. The older of the two, Simona, has been helping him look through the classifieds. Humiliation, Paulina Flores’s debut collection of short stories, beautifully translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, is a timely work that provides pertinent backstory to the protests and official repression that have erupted in Chile this fall. As I write this review, hundreds of thousands of Chileans have taken to the streets to protest the right-wing government and gross inequality; at least twenty people have been killed, more than two thousand arrested, and hundreds have been. Humiliation by Paulina Flores review – empathetic short stories Poverty and indignity in Chile are explored with skill Many of the stories convey a vulnerability and loss of innocence.