Selva Almada: "The men group together to violate"

The writer Selva Almada, in Edinburgh in August 2019.Roberto Ricciuti / getty

"January Rey, standing firm on the boat, legs ajar, his massive body, hairless, his swollen belly, stares at the surface of the river, waits wielding the revolver", that's how it begins It's

Argentina's new novel Selva Almada (Entre Ríos, 48 ​​years old).

"A friend said that rays are caught by shooting them, something I did not know and that impressed me a lot," he tells about the story heard at a barbecue from which this fiction was born.

In its pages flows the friendship of three men, muddied by sec ...

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