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Fernanda Trías
Fernanda Trías (Uruguay, 1976) is the author of novels La Azotea (The…
DiscoverFernanda Trías at Edinburgh International Book Festival
First published in Argentina in 2015 and now finally available in English, Fernanda Trías’s Pink Slime traces the complications of re-imagining family in the wake of ecological disaster while Samanta Schweblin’s short stories, Seven Empty Houses, sets the comforts of home off-kilter.
Join Trías and Schweblin as they discuss the complexity of finding where home lies in a turbulent world and the islands of respite that make life worth living. Chaired by Heather Parry.
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Pink Slime
Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolomé-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Prize.
A port city is in the grips of an ecological crisis. The river has filled with toxic algae, and a deadly ‘red wind’ blows through its streets; much of the coast has been evacuated as the wealthy migrate inland to safety, leaving the rest to shelter in abandoned houses as blackouts and food shortages abound.
The unnamed narrator is one of those who has stayed. She spends her days trying to disentangle herself from the two relationships that had once…
