A Carnival of Atrocities - Freire, Natalia García
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The residents of a desolate town nestled in the Ecuadorian Andes are forced to reckon with the legend of Mildred, a girl wronged by the town years ago Cocuán, a desolate town nestled between the hot jungle and the frigid Andes, is about to slip away from memory. This is where Mildred was born, and where everything she had-her animals, her home, her lands-was taken from her after her mother's death. Years later, a series of strange events, disappearances, and outbursts of collective delirium will force its residents to reckon with the legend of old Mildred. Once again, they will feel the shadow…mehr

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The residents of a desolate town nestled in the Ecuadorian Andes are forced to reckon with the legend of Mildred, a girl wronged by the town years ago
Cocuán, a desolate town nestled between the hot jungle and the frigid Andes, is about to slip away from memory. This is where Mildred was born, and where everything she had-her animals, her home, her lands-was taken from her after her mother's death. Years later, a series of strange events, disappearances, and outbursts of collective delirium will force its residents to reckon with the legend of old Mildred. Once again, they will feel the shadow of death that has hung over the town ever since she was wronged. The voices of nine characters-Mildred, Ezequiel, Agustina, Manzi, Carmen, Víctor, Baltasar, Hermosina, and Filatelio-tell us of the past and present of that doomed place and Mildred's fate.Natalia García Freire's vivid language blurs the lines between dreams and reality and transports the reader to the hypnotic Andean universe of Ecuador.
Autorenporträt
Natalia García Freire was born in Cuenca, Ecuador, in 1991. She teaches Creative Writing at Escuela de Escritores de Madrid. García Freire’s debut novel, This World Does Not Belong to Us, was published in English by World Editions and One World in 2022. This World Does Not Belong to Us won the English PEN Translation Award, was nominated for the Tigre Juan Award and selected by the New York Times as one of the best Spanish-language books of 2019. It has been translated into Italian, French, Turkish, and Danish. A Carnival of Atrocities is Natalia García Freire’s second novel published by World Editions. Victor Meadowcroft is a translator from Spanish and Portuguese and a graduate of the University of East Anglia’s master’s programme in literary translation. His published translations include stories by Agustina Bessa-Luís in Take Six: Six Portuguese Women Writers (co-translation with Margaret Jull Costa, Dedalus Books, 2018) and Toño the Infallible by Evelio Rosero (co-translation with Anne McLean, New Directions, 2022), which was shortlisted for the PEN Translation Prize in 2023 and longlisted for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute of Translation Prize in the same year. His translation of Natalia García Freire’s This World Does Not Belong to Us was published by World Editions in 2022 and was shortlisted for the TA First Translation Prize and the Premio Valle Inclán.
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Praise for A Carnival of Atrocities

"What an event! Natalia García Freire conjures up an ancient forest and sets language and its roots alight, including the living and dead. Marvelous, dazzling, celebratory writing. I can't say it enough: read it!" -MARÍA SÁNCHEZ, author of Land of Women

"The language in this novel weaves together miracles, curses, and deliriums. Natalia García Freire creates disturbing and beautiful books that remind one of the poetic cruelty of far-off mythologies." -IRENE VALLEJO, author of the international bestseller Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World

"This is the story of a town, Cocuán, told through its characters. A story with hints of fable, myth, madness, death, innocence, evil ... It's amazing, as always." -ANDREA CARRASCO, ABC

"In A Carnival of Atrocities, the story of poor Mildred, banished, dispossessed, and ostracized, is preserved in Mother Earth, Pachamama, in Cocuán." -INÉS GARCÍA, Libero Editorial

"In Natalia García Freire's literary universe, everything that was destined to remain a secret, hidden away, has come to light: the wind, the birds, the forest. She writes from the ground level, somewhere between the ferocity of Flannery O'Connor and the sinister nature of Shirley Jackson-it will leave no one indifferent. Hers is a mad and disturbing universe." -CRISTINA SÁNCHEZ ANDRADE, author of The Winterlings

"A beautiful and terrible book." -JOSEP NADAL SUAU, El Cultural

Praise for This World Does Not Belong to Us

"Disquieting and visceral. ... García Freire unearths a brilliant sense of the miraculous from the swarming and putrid subject matter. The result is beautifully macabre." -Publishers Weekly, starred review

"One of the debut novels that most stood out this year in Latin America." -New York Times

"A wronged, bitter young man welcomes his fate in Natalia García Freire's novel This World Does Not Belong to Us. Lucas was just a child when his father sold him to another farmer as a laborer. Years later, Lucas returns, full of resentment and burning for revenge. ... Visceral prose captures Lucas's obsession with death, bugs, and other unpleasant aspects of life. ... There is a strange, unconventional beauty to his morbid world-a beauty that helps him endure pain and humiliation and achieve an unnerving final calm. This World Does Not Belong to Us is a bleak exploration of how all ends in death and decay." -Foreword Reviews

"A deliciously menacing read which I just couldn't put down. Every word punches hard. This World Does Not Belong to Us treads the fine line between beauty and horror effortlessly." -JAN CARSON, author of The Raptures

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