Natural Selection published
ISBN: 9781906300081 Price: £8.99 Aug 09
CECILIA SZPERLING’S remarkable Natural Selection ‘paints a picture of a sordid, uncomfortable ecosystem in … which the appearance of stability cannot mask the hysteria within’, according to the Latin American Review of Books. The novel, recently launched by Aflame, secured translation funding under the Argentine government’s pioneering Sur translation programme. Translated by Oscar Luna, it relates the high-octane story of a group of young people tearing at the flesh in the middle-class food chain of Buenos Aires. Szperling tells a blunt and bloody tale of young people embarking together on a journey through a drug-fuelled mire of their own making in the Argentine capital. A dizzying cross between Trainspotting and Factotum, Natural Selection has a breathlessly changing pace that gives it the speed of a road movie without brakes. It was described by Página/12 in Buenos Aires as an ‘accomplished vision of the social savagery of big cities’.
