La Perra / The Bitch

La perra es una novela sobre el amor de las madres, la traicin, la lealtad, la culpa y la soledad de las relaciones humanas.

En un pequeo pueblo del Pacfico donde confluyen la belleza y la violencia de la regin y conviven, separados, la riqueza y la pobreza, los blancos y los negros, tiene lugar la historia de Damaris.

Damaris, una negra del Pacfico ya en la madurez, lleva muchos aos viviendo con Rogelio. Su turbulenta relacin ha estado marcada por la bsqueda infructuosa de un hijo: prueban de todo, y aun as Damaris no consigue quedarse embarazada. Perdida toda esperanza, Damaris encuentra una nueva ilusin cuando se le presenta la oportunidad de adoptar una perra. Esta nueva e intensa relacin con el animal ser para Damaris la experiencia que la obligar a reflexionar sobre el instinto y la maternidad.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The accomplished novel by Pilar Quintana has arrived to Alfaguara, winner of the Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana Prize, a National Book Award finalist, and translated in more than twenty languages.

In Colombia's brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy.

Colombia's Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. In this constant struggle, nothing is taken for granted. Damaris lives with her fisherman husband in a shack on a bluff overlooking the sea. Childless and at that age "when women dry up," as her uncle puts it, she is eager to adopt an orphaned puppy. But this act may bring more than just affection into her home. The Bitch is written in a prose as terse as the villagers, with storms―both meteorological and emotional―lurking around each corner. Beauty and dread live side by side in this poignant exploration of the many meanings of motherhood and love.