Human Sacrifices

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By Mara Fernanda Ampuero

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Human Sacrifices is a powerful collection of twelve short stories by Mara Fernanda Ampuero, exploring the grim realities faced by marginalised individuals in contemporary Latin America. The narratives range from an undocumented woman trapped by a job gone wrong, to outcasts grappling with tragedy, and a couple ensnared in a haunting maze. Ampuero's work exposes the harsh consequences of machismo, inequity, and violence within a society where the underprivileged bear the cost of others' comfort.

Evoking a "tropical gothic" atmosphere, these stories reveal decay and oppression beneath society's surface, particularly highlighting the struggles of working-class women and children in a ruthless capitalist framework.
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Best suited for readers interested in contemporary Latin American fiction, social critique, and stories that confront difficult themes such as violence and inequality with unflinching honesty.

"Human Sacrifices is a short story collection by Ecuadorian author Marâia Fernanda Ampuero that explores the horrors of inequality, exploitation, marginalization, and violence against working-class women and children under capitalism"--

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A groundbreaking voice in contemporary Latin American literature, Mara Fernanda Ampuero's writing is raw and savage as she confronts machismo, inequity, and violence in this acclaimed short story collection (Vistazo).

An undocumented woman answers a job posting only to find herself held hostage, a group of outcasts obsess over boys drowned while surfing, and an unhappy couple finds themselves trapped in a terrifying maze. With scalpel-like precision, Ampuero considers the price paid by those on the margins so that the elite might lounge comfortably, considering themselves safe in their homes.

Simultaneously terrifying and exquisite, Human Sacrifices is tropical gothic at its finest—decay and oppression underlie our humid and hostile world, where working-class women and children are consistently the weakest links in a capitalist economy. Against this backdrop of corrosion and rot, these twelve stories contemplate the nature of exploitation and abuse, illuminating the realities of those society consumes for its own pitiless ends.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781558612983

Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 May 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Feminist Press at The City University of New York

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Translated by Frances Riddle

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 144

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Fiction General Fiction Horror & Supernatural Mara Fernanda Ampuero

About the Author

Mara Fernanda Ampuero is a writer and a journalist, born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1976. She has been published in newspapers and magazines around the world, and is the author of the journalistic narrative nonfiction titles Lo que aprend en la peluquera and Permiso de residenciaShe is also author of the short story collection Cockfight, which has been translated into several languages, and recipient of the Cosecha Ee Award for Short Stories. In 2012 she was selected as one of the 100 Most Influential Latin Americans in Spain, and in 2018, she won the first Mad Women Fest Short Story Prize.

Frances Riddle has translated numerous Spanish-language authors including Isabel Allende, Claudia Pieiro, Leila Guerriero, and Sara Gallardo. Her translation of Elena Knows by Claudia Pieiro was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022 and her translation of Theatre of War by Andrea Jeftanovic was awarded an English PEN grant in 2021. Her work has appeared in journals such as Granta, and theWhite Review, among others. She holds a BA in Spanish Language from Louisiana State University and an MA in Translation Studies from the University of Buenos Aires. Originally from Houston, she now lives in Buenos Aires.