Cousins

Name: Cousins
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9780571372393
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By Aurora Venturini

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In Cousins by Aurora Venturini, the story revolves around a bizarre and dysfunctional family, narrated by Yuna, a young girl with developmental challenges. As she navigates the complexities of her childhood and adolescence, she observes the peculiar dynamics and secrets of her eccentric relatives, revealing insights into their lives with a blend of dark humour and raw emotion. The book offers a compelling look at family ties and the challenges of growing up in an unconventional environment.
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Cousins

The literary masterpiece of a major discovery in international literature - never before translated into English.

The literary masterpiece of a major discovery in international literature - never before translated into English.

Description

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 the story of four women from an impoverished, dysfunctional family in La Plata, Argentina, who are forced to suffer a series of ordeals including disfigurement, illegal abortions, miscarriages, sexual abuse and murder. These events are narrated by a daughter whose success as a painter offers her a chance to achieve economic independence and help her family as best she can.

Neighbourhood mythologies, family, female sexuality, vengeance, and social mobility through art are explored and scrutinised in the unmistakable voice of an unforgettable protagonist, Yuna, who stares wildly at the world in which she is compelled to live; a voice unique in its candidness, sharp edge and utterly breathtaking power.

Cousins is the jewel in Venturini's oeuvre - mischievous and stylish, vital and mysterious... and completely original.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571372393

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 April 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Contributors:

Translated by Kit Maude
Translated by Kit Maude

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 220g

Pages: 208

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Aurora Venturini Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction

About the Author

Aurora Venturini was born in 1921 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an adviser to the Institute of the Child's Psychology and Re-education where she met and became intimate friends with Eva Peron. In 1948, Jorge Luis Borges personally handed her the Initiation Award (Premio Iniciacion) for her book El solitario. She studied Psychology at the University of Paris, where she self-exiled for 25 years after the Liberating Revolution. In Paris she lived in the company of Violette Leduc and became a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Eugene Ionesco and Juliette Greco. She translated and wrote critical essays on poets such as Isidore Ducasse, Conde de Lautreamont, Francois Villon and Arthur Rimbaud; for the translations of the latter two authors she received the Iron Cross decoration granted by the French government. In 2007, she received the Pagina/12 New Novel Award for Las primas (Cousins). She died on November 24, 2015, in Buenos Aires at the age of 92.