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The Rooftop

Fernanda Trías

$15.95
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9781913867041
UPC:
9781913867041
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Published by:
Charco Press
Translated by:
Annie McDermott
Pub date:
10/12/2021
Binding type:
Paperback
Pages:
112
ISBN:
9781913867041

In a rundown apartment building, in an unnamed city in Uruguay, a father and daughter close themselves off from the world. 'The world is this house', says Clara, and the rooftop becomes their last recess of freedom. A pet canary is their only witness.

As Clara's connection to the outside is stripped away--the neighbor who stops coming by, the lover whose existence is only known by a pregnancy--desperation and paranoia take hold. It's a stifling embrace, and we are there with her, our narrator, dreading what we know the future holds.