2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS TRANSLATED LITERATURE FINALIST In Colombia\'s brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy.
Quintana works wonders with her disillusioned, no-nonsense, powerful.
What are those things? Violence, loneliness, resilience, cruelty. "The magic of this sparse novel is its ability to talk about many things, all of them important, while seemingly talking about something else entirely. 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS TRANSLATED LITERATURE FINALIST In Colombia\'s brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy