{"id":445382,"date":"2024-08-28T11:42:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T15:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/?p=445382"},"modified":"2024-08-28T14:23:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T18:23:59","slug":"pilar-adon-reading-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2024\/08\/28\/pilar-adon-reading-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilar Ad\u00f3n Reading Tour!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This September, Pilar Ad\u00f3n\u2014author of Of Beasts and Fowls<\/em><\/a> (translated by Katie Whittemore), winner of Spain’s Premio Nacional de Narrativa last year\u2014will embark on a five-city, six-stop tour hitting several of the best indie bookshops in America, and sharing this incredibly beautiful, compelling novel of a woman who, while trying to clear her mind, finds herself trapped in a gothic estate populated by a cultish group of women . . . More info on that below, but here’s the important part\u2014the scheduled public events:<\/p>\n

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New York: Wednesday, Sept 4 @ 7pm ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reading and Conversation with Tana Oshima<\/p>\n

N+1 Event Space<\/p>\n

37 Greenpoint Ave #316<\/p>\n

Brooklyn, NY 11022<\/p>\n

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Chicago: Friday, Sept 6 @ 7pm CT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reading and Conversation with Chad W. Post<\/p>\n

Instituto Cervantes Library<\/p>\n

31 W. Ohio St.<\/p>\n

Chicago, IL 60654<\/p>\n

Chicago: Saturday, Sept 7 at 7pm CT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reading and Conversation with Tatjana Gajic<\/p>\n

Exile in Bookville<\/p>\n

Fine Arts Building<\/p>\n

410 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 210<\/p>\n

Chicago, IL 60605<\/p>\n

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Dallas: Wednesday, Sept 11 @ 6pm CT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reading and Conversation<\/a><\/p>\n

Wild Detectives<\/p>\n

314 Eighth St.<\/p>\n

Dallas, TX 75208<\/p>\n

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Friday, Sept 13 @ 7pm PT: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Reading and Conversation<\/a><\/p>\n

Powell\u2019s City of Books<\/p>\n

1005 W. Burnside<\/p>\n

Portland, OR 97209<\/p>\n

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Tuesday, Sept 17 @ 7pm PT: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Reading and Conversation<\/a><\/p>\n

Third Place Books<\/p>\n

6504 20th<\/sup> Ave. NE<\/p>\n

Seattle, WA 98115<\/p>\n

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If you’re reading this before September 1st, please be aware that\u00a0Of Beasts and Fowls\u00a0<\/em>is currently 40% off thanks to our Women in Translation Month sale!<\/p>\n

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\u201cA funerary poem about a bird flying underground; a psychodrama of two sisters drowning in the mirror of memory; a center of a necrophilic labyrinth; Virginia Woolf\u2019s Rhoda lost in John Hawkes\u2019s\u00a0Travesty<\/em><\/i>. Pilar Adon\u2019s novel is the most haunting I have read in years.\u201d\u2014Mircea C\u0103rt\u0103rescu, winner of the Dublin Literary Award<\/strong><\/p>\n

Summer is ending and Coro, an artist frightened of what her paintings of her dead sister may represent, gets in her car one night and starts to drive, with no plan or destination.\u00a0After a wrong turn down a narrow dirt road, she runs out of gas outside the gates of a large and isolated house called Bethany, a place inhabited exclusively by a small group of women who seem to exist in a closed, hierarchical system a world apart. The women of Bethany live closely with the natural and animal world, celebrate rites and rituals, and, like devotees of an ancestral cult, all dress the same. Most unsettlingly, they seem to know who Coro is already. In fact, they have been expecting her.<\/p>\n

How the women came to live in Bethany, why they believe Coro is destined to be there, and most pressing, why won\u2019t they let her leave are questions Coro must face as she struggles between the instinct to escape and the sense that something larger is at work.<\/p>\n

When Bethany\u2019s careful balance is disturbed\u2014with violent consequences\u2014by the appearance of a mysterious man who claims the house and land are his, Coro will find herself forced to meet her own ghosts, reckon with her choices, and accept that Bethany might just be where she belongs.<\/p>\n

Winner of Spain\u2019s\u00a0Premio Nacional\u00a0de Narrativa in 2023,\u00a0Of Beasts and Fowls<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/i>introduces a grand talent new to English audiences in a haunting novel rife with natural descriptions, signs and symbols, and a sense of the uncanny.<\/p>\n

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Pilar Ad\u00f3n<\/b>\u00a0was born in Madrid in 1971 and is the author of four novels, including\u00a0The Mayflies\u00a0<\/i>(forthcoming from Open Letter), several short story collection, and four volumes of poetry. She received the Ojo Critico Prize for\u00a0Viajes inocentes<\/i>, and won the Premio Francisco Umbral al Libro del A\u00f1o, Premio C\u00e1lamo, and the Premio de la Critica for\u00a0Of Beasts and Fowls<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Katie Whittemore<\/b><\/span>\u00a0translates from the Spanish. Full-length translations include works by\u00a0Sara Mesa, Javier Serena, Aroa Moreno Dur\u00e1n, Lara Moreno, Nuria Labari, and Katixa Agirre. Forthcoming translations include novels by Jon Bilbao, Juan G\u00f3mez B\u00e1rcena, Almudena S\u00e1nchez, Aliocha Coll, and Pilar Ad\u00f3n. She received an NEA Translation Fellowship in 2022 to translate Moreno’s\u00a0In Case We Lose Power<\/em>, and was a finalist for the Spain-USA Prize for her translation of Katixa Agirre’s\u00a0Mothers Don’t.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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