ONLINE EVENT 10/02: Raquel Abend and Lizzie Davis in conversation

ONLINE EVENT 10/02: Raquel Abend and Lizzie Davis in conversation

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ONLINE EVENT 10/02: Raquel Abend and Lizzie Davis in conversation
  • ONLINE EVENT 10/02: Raquel Abend and Lizzie Davis in conversation
  • ONLINE EVENT 10/02: Raquel Abend and Lizzie Davis in conversation
  • ONLINE EVENT 10/02: Raquel Abend and Lizzie Davis in conversation
  • ONLINE EVENT 10/02: Raquel Abend and Lizzie Davis in conversation
  • ONLINE EVENT 10/02: Raquel Abend and Lizzie Davis in conversation
  • ONLINE EVENT 10/02: Raquel Abend and Lizzie Davis in conversation
ONLINE EVENT 10/02: Raquel Abend and Lizzie Davis in conversation

ONLINE EVENT 10/02: Raquel Abend and Lizzie Davis in conversation

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Join us for a fantastic evening with Venezuelan author Raquel Abend and translator Lizzie Davis to discuss their upcoming novel, Bloat: a delirious and compelling book about women trapped in an oil-soaked dystopia. Raquel and Lizzie will be in conversation with Evelyn Heis (Host of It's Lit in Translation podcast) and will be discussing what it was like to bring this novel from Venezuela to our doorstep. 

This is an online event, so you can tune in from anywhere! Ticket holders will be emailed the Zoom link ahead of the event. 

Date:
Wednesday 10th of February

Venue:
Your house! (Online)

Time:
Discussion at 19:00. Finish approx 20:00.

Tickets:
£2 ticket only
£12.99 ticket with Bloat (paperback) 

We will be sending all ticket holders a Zoom link ahead of the event to tune in. Please make sure to check your junk folders! 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Bloat

“My fellow Venezuelans, we’re going to swim in black gold. Remember this year: 1999. We’re not just reclaiming our spring, our Thames, our Seine. We’re reclaiming our country.”

Mercedita lives with her mother and grandmother, reeling from the recent death of her father and the intrusion of investigators into their home. Across the street is Merced, a sex worker entangled with an oil executive, soon to have a baby. Not far away, Mercedes – known to all as Mamé – runs La Tasca, a once thriving bar, now grave-quiet as the boom times come to an end. Mercy, who works at a restaurant frequented by the powerful, is sent home after coughing up blood.

These four women are connected by the alternate Caracas they inhabit, by their female bodies, by their strength in the face of the fear and violence which shadows them – and by the oil around which the life of the city and country revolves, even as the fields dry up and the executives implement a new and unsettling system of production. In visceral and absorbing prose, Bloat explores exploitation, beauty and power, conjuring up a world that is not quite ours, but is hauntingly familiar.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR, TRANSLATOR AND PUBLISHER

Raquel Abend was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She holds a PhD in creative writing in Spanish and art history from the University of Houston. She is the author of two novels, a short story collection and three poetry collections. Bloat is her debut publication in English. She lives in Houston, Texas.

Lizzie Davis has translated over a dozen books, including novels by Juan Cárdenas, Elena Medel, Daniela Tarazona and Pilar Fraile. She is the executive editor at Transit Books, after nearly a decade at Coffee House Press. She lives in Berkeley, California.

PEIRENE PRESS are an award-winning independent publisher of new voices and great books from across the world. Based in Bath, they have been a key player in the thriving UK independent publishing scene for over a decade, publishing books from 25 countries and 20 different languages. Traditionally a publisher of European novellas in translation, they now publish writing from all over the world and are expanding their list to publish literary fiction of all shapes and sizes. 

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