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Of Beasts and Fowls

By Pilar Adon & Katie Whittemore
Of Beasts and Fowls by Pilar Adon & Katie Whittemore digital book - Fable

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•BUILDING ON SUCCESS: Following Katie Whittemore's "Translation Triptych" in 2022, she's become one of the most respected and sought after Spanish translators working today, with readers seeking out anything that she puts her name to. 

•FOR FANS OF: Fits in with both our line of Spanish female authors (Sara Mesa, Lara Moreno, etc.), but with a darkness similar to the works of Mariana Enríquez, Fernanda Melchior, and Samanta Schweblin. 


•INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIM: Adón's reputation grows with every book, as she continues to win more and more accolades and awards. Similar to Sara Mesa—whose first book we brought out in 2020, on the cusp of her reputation exploding around the world—Adón is primed to become the next hot, dark, twisty voice representing Spanish-language literature. 

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1.5
“just read a whole lot of nothing… the first 50 pages we have direction and some sort of narrative but the rest of the book was not good. the writing was nice but confused me a lot… half the time i couldn’t tell what character’s perspective we were reading or who was talking when there was dialogue. either i’m not smart enough for this book or it’s just plain bad. also the last 30 pgs jut kept dragging on and on and on, i just needed to be done with the book immediately. 1.5⭐️ :/”

About Pilar Adon

Pilar Adón was born in Madrid in 1971 and is the author of four novels, including The Mayflies (forthcoming from Open Letter), several short story collection, and four volumes of poetry. She received the Ojo Critico Prize for Viajes inocentes, and won the Premio Francisco Umbral al Libro del Año, Premio Cálamo, and the Premio de la Critica for Of Beasts and Fowls.

Katie Whittemore

Katie Whittemore translates from the Spanish. Full-length translations include works by Sara Mesa, Javier Serena, Aroa Moreno Durán, Lara Moreno, Nuria Labari, and Katixa Agirre. Forthcoming translations include novels by Jon Bilbao, Juan Gómez Bárcena, Almudena Sánchez, Aliocha Coll, and Pilar Adón. She received an NEA Translation Fellowship in 2022 to translate Moreno's In Case We Lose Power, and was a finalist for the Spain-USA Prize for her translation of Katixa Agirre's Mothers Don't.

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