{"title":"Daniela Tarazona","description":"Daniela Tarazona (Mexico City, 1975) is the author of Divided Island, winner of the prestigious Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize and published by Deep Vellum in 2024. In 2012, she published the novel El beso de la liebre (Alfaguara), which was shortlisted for the Las Américas Prize in 2013. In 2020, the book Clarice Lispector: La mirada en el jardín (Lumen) was published, co-written by Tarazona and Nuria Mel. Her work has been translated into English and French. She has been a fellow of Mexico's Young Artists program and is currently a member of the FONCA fund's National Network of Artists. In 2011, she was recognized as one of twenty-five Latin American literary secrets by the Guadalajara International Book Fair. The Animal on the Rock was her debut novel, and is her second to be translated into English.","products":[{"product_id":"the-animal-on-the-rock-paperback","title":"The Animal on the Rock - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe sun gives me comfort. The temperature outside calibrates the temperature of my body, and I know I am immortal when I'm on a rock.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter Irma's mother dies, she boards a plane to the coast. Soon she is consumed by strange dreams and irrational fears, and her body begins to transform in ways as unexpected as they are natural. The skin over her joints grows thick and scaly, her eyes take on a yellow gleam, and the border between reality and delirium becomes first elastic, then irrelevant. As the world around her tips out of balance-the weather turning volatile, strangers issuing cryptic warnings--she returns again and again to the rock where she undergoes metamorphosis: a series of radical mutations that enable her to survive.Elemental and prophetic, intimate and universal, \u003ci\u003eThe Animal on the Rock\u003c\/i\u003e bears witness to the terror and magnificence of being a child, a parent, a changing animal. A profoundly biological and introspective novel that lies somewhere between clinical record and fever dream.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102847733983,"sku":"9781646053971","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/llXuGC-OQs9781646053971.webp?v=1781087467"},{"product_id":"divided-island-paperback","title":"Divided Island - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the winner of the 2022 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize: a fractal exploration of a woman's grief as she moves through disjointed segments of time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDivided Island\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a woman with a neurological disorder. The day she goes in for the encephalogram that will lead to her diagnosis, she finds herself splitting in two. One of the two women she becomes decides to travel to an island to take her own life; the other remains behind. Scenes and images real and imagined gradually coalesce into the story of a life told from a singular location: a way of perceiving and describing the world, guided by cerebral dysrhythmia. Written in scraps and fragmented chapters, \u003ci\u003eDivided Island\u003c\/i\u003e is a nonlinear narrative best read as a poetic experience, in which the protagonist's memories and dreams recompose the world and, in doing so, trouble the very notion of the self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis slim volume makes it abundantly clear why Daniela Tarazona belongs in the company of other Sor Juana winners like Valeria Luiselli, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Almudena Grandes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104830034143,"sku":"9781646053148","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Go37CmUPey9781646053148.webp?v=1781111406"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/daniela-tarazona.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}