Aurora Venturini

In 2007, Aurora Venturini stunned Argentine readers when her darkly funny and formally daring novel, Cousins, won a newspaper's award for a first novel. She had already written more than thirty books, but it was only at the age of eighty-five that she was widely recognised as a radical voice in Spanish-language literature. Widely regarded as Venturini's masterpiece, Cousins is...

Cousins is a captivating narrative where Yuna resides with her mother, cousins, and sister in an impoverished town outside Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her only way out of this environment is through a promising young career as a painter. Her female family encounter a series of terrible misfortunes, which are perceived and relayed by Yuna in a dark, gnomic, and unabashedly...