The Summer of the Serpent

The Summer of the Serpent - Hardcover

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The Summer of the Serpent - Hardcover

The Summer of the Serpent - Hardcover

by Cecilia Eudave
$27.00
$27.00

Book Overview

This surreal, horror-tinged, Guadalajara-set work of Latin American "literature of the unusual" is a kaleidoscopic descent into the small violences and hidden horrors of one sweltering summer, forming a coil of vignettes that slither under the skin for a strange, deeply human portrait of memory, myth, and family.

For fans of Samanta Schweblin, Mónica Ojeda, and Brenda Lozano.

Guadalajara, Mexico, 1977. In a quiet residential neighborhood, children witness things they can never forget: a serpent girl weeping in a carnival glass box, a neighbor who dangles his dog from a tree, and a ghost who returns night after night, desperate to tell its story. Meanwhile, the grown-ups drift through the season half oblivious, their spirits eroding as the relentless summer wears on.

Told in colliding voices--children and adults, ghosts and the haunted, the living and the almost-invisible--The Summer of the Serpent is a prismatic portrait of the past, where memory is shot through with myth. Each narrator offers a fragment of the truth, until the stories twist together into a shape as elusive and mesmerizing as the boa constrictor that winds its way through the neighborhood.

Strange yet deeply human, this brilliantly fragmented novel captures the moment when childhood innocence begins to corrode--and how those memories can coil through a lifetime.
ISBN9781641295826
Author Cecilia Eudave
PublisherSoho Press
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedJune 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages144
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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