Natural Selection (Argentina)
ISBN: 9781906300081 Price: £8.99 Due for release Aug 09
By Cecilia Szperling
Translated by Oscar Luna
A group of young people find themselves tearing at the flesh in the middle-class food chain of Buenos Aires, interacting, competing, envying, loving and fratricidally hating, shooting up, travelling, stealing and encountering madness.
It tells their blunt and bloody story as they embark 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.
This novel by one of Argentina’s rising stars is a blunt new departure in the country’s literature - written by a woman yet following the style of such notable male writers as Irvine Welsh and Charles Bukowski. The author has gatecrashed a seedy, and dangerous world hitherto populated by men, with breathtaking audacity – and Latin American women’s writing will never be the same.
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‘Natural Selection is an accomplished vision of the social savagery of big cities’
- Página/12, Buenos Aires
‘It paints a picture of a sordid, uncomfortable ecosystem in … which the appearance of stability cannot mask the hysteria within’
– Latin American Review of Books